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Standing female figure
Object Number 33-55-50/134
Display Title Standing female figure
Descriptions
Inventory Description Sculpture, standing female, braided fiber hair, woven apron, pigment stripe on e
Classification
  • Sculpture
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Bassa
  • Kru
  • Bassa
  • Dan
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Liberia
Materials Wood, Vegetable fiber, Cotton, Palm fiber, Pigment, Metal
Dimensions Overall: 67.3 x 18 x 14.7 cm (26 1/2 x 7 1/16 x 5 13/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 33-55-50/134
Credit Line Museum Purchase, Gifts for Special Uses Fund, 1933
Provenance
Collector Dr. George W. Harley (1933)
Seller Dr. George W. Harley (07/20/1933)

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