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Image Not Available for Large wooden milk jug, bottle shape ("mkongora")
Large wooden milk jug, bottle shape ("mkongora")
Image Not Available for Large wooden milk jug, bottle shape ("mkongora")
Object Number 39-39-50/4177
Display Title Large wooden milk jug, bottle shape ("mkongora")
Descriptions
Indigenous Term mkongora
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Banyaruanda
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Uganda
Additional Geographic Terms Uganda, Southwest: Kigesi District: Nyakabande; Lake Mutanda, near

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