“Portrait of Mrs. Fatou Thioune, Saint Louis,” by Macky Kane, c.1939–1941. This photograph shows Thioune posing in front of her “xoymet,” a Wolof word for a photographic collage associated with brides in the lead up to their wedding. Images were collected from friends and family and arranged by a specialist, with the xoymet visited by the bride’s social circle in the lead up to the big day. The uniquely Senegalese social practice sprung up in the 1930s and died out in the 1960s, for reasons unknown, said Paoletti.