Printed caption on recto reads: "Soudanaise. La danse des Derviches. Ecole Arabe."
Translated caption reads: "Sudanese; The Dance of the Dervishes; Arab School."
Additional printed text on recto reads: "A. Salmona Editeur." Item number on recto: "6165."
Manuscript date and message on recto; address and postmarks on verso.
Local Numbers:
EEPA UA-20-07
General:
Title source: Postcard caption.
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Folio from a Guy u Chawgan (The ball and the polo-mallet) by Arifi (d.1449); recto: text; verso: A polo game: the dervish and the shah on the polo field
Folio from the Silsilat al-dhahab (Chain of gold) in the Haft awrang (Seven thrones) by Jami (d. 1492); recto: The dervish picks up his beloved's hair from the hammam floor; verso: text