FA 437
15 colonial postcards of Islam, sorcery and fetish dancing in Senegal.
Price: $450.00
French West Africa
FA 436
FA 436
25 colonial postcards of native life in Cote d’Ivoire. Shown are fetish culture, music, entertainers, local chiefs, local lavatory, hut construction, dancing, cotton picking, local markets, cooking, indigenous school, teaching the koran, tam-tam.
Price: $750.00
FA 435
12 colonial postcards of the interaction between the French and local natives in Cote d'Ivoire, especially with regard to the civilizing mission and what it created. Also showing French and indigenous building structures.
Price: $360.00
FA 434
10 colonial postcards of different types of Cote d’Ivoire. Shown are the Bobo, Agni, Ebriee and Baoule. One contains advertising on the reverse, during the transition to Independence.
Price: $300.00
FA 429
18 colonial postcards lo native life in Niger. Shown are a French colonial Mehariste, Djermas warriors, chiselling teeth, a Houssa musician, pounding manioc, going to market, local granary, hunting, fishing, interesting market, sorting produce, Christian children, mother giving baby an oral enema.
Price: $1320.00
FA 428
10 colonial postcards of life and colonial architecture of Zinder, Niger. Some with handwritten notations identifying specific buildings.
Price: $300.00
NOTE: Zinder was originally the site of the small Hausa village of Zengou. Europeans began exploring the region in the 19th century, beginning with German explorer Heinrich Barth, who stayed in Zinder in 1851, and later the French explorer Marius Gabriel Cazemajou, who was killed in the city in 1897. It was then, after a brief resistance, occupied in July 1899 by Lt. Pallier of the Voulet-Chanoine mission. The French barracks was called Fort Cazemajou and it served as the capital of the Niger Military Territory upon its creation in 1911. In 1926, following fears of Hausa revolts and improving relations with the Djerma of the west, the capital was transferred back to the village of Niamey.
FA 427
7 colonial postcards of the Peulhe people. Also 4 postcards of local chiefs.
Price: $210.00
FA 426
16 colonial postcards of Mauritania showing the life of the local population. Shown are practicing Islam, rare image of the training of local trailleurs by a French officer, ethnic Moroccans (tribes Trarza and Djijiba, rare image of a captured Moroccan woman, local market, nomad encampment, fishing, vue of Port Etienne and a photo souvenir around the time of Independence.
Price: $450.00
FA 425
16 colonial postcards of the social and economic life among the locals in French Guinea. Shown are fetish worship, dancing, different costumes, local markets, clothes washing, cooking, hunting, banana cultivation.
Price: $480.00
FA 423
20 colonial postcards of different male types and native chiefs (some of whom are named) of French Guinea. Shown are the Foulah, Coniaguis, Bassari, Guerze, and Peuhl.
Price: $600.00