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Hair pin and knife
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Object Number 21-28-50/B2856
Display Title Hair pin and knife
Descriptions
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Bafia
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Cameroon
Additional Geographic Terms West Africa

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