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Dance of Mud Heads
Object Number 2004.24.4603
Display Title Dance of Mud Heads
Descriptions
Keywords
  • Ethnographic
  • Dance
Subject
  • Mud Head
Department Photographic
Date 1913
Artist Mr. Robert G. Fuller
Culture
  • Zuñi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / New Mexico / McKinley County / <City> / Zuni Pueblo
Materials Negative, nitrate
Dimensions Overall: 11.43 x 16.51 cm (4 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.)

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