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Kerosene can
Object Number 2001.29.124
Display Title Kerosene can
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1955
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
Materials Polaroid
Dimensions Overall: 8.255 × 12.3825 cm (3 1/4 × 4 7/8 in.)
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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Cup
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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
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Fragment
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Oil lamp; used with kerosene.
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!U seated in the foreground, !Ungka Norna licking a can, an unidentified, visiting girl and Debe holding cans, and Di!ai seated in the background
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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
!U seated in the foreground, !Ungka Norna licking a can, an unidentified, visiting girl and Debe holding cans, and Di!ai seated in the background
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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Books, tin cup and can balanced on the top of a jerry can
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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
/Gaishay wearing Western clothing, sitting on an oil can, playing a one-stringed bow, with a boy sitting on a jerry can next to him
2001.29.16087 /Gaishay wearing Western clothing, sitting on an oil can, playing a one-stringed bow, with a boy sitting on a jerry can next to him
Nyae Nyae Conservancy