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Making red wood powder
Making red wood powder
Object Number 2004.24.6937A
Display Title Making red wood powder
Descriptions
Object Description a) Making red-wood powder to be smeared on body, b) making twine, c) making red-wood powder to be smeared on body.
Keywords
  • Floral
Subject
  • Mineral
  • Floral
  • Hammer
  • Wood
  • Rural
  • Man
Department Photographic
Date 1921
Artist George Schwab
Culture
  • Fang
  • Bene
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Cameroon
Materials Negative, nitrate
Dimensions Overall: 6.35 x 11.43 cm (2 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.)

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Woman making red-wood powder to be smeared on body
2004.24.6937C Woman making red-wood powder to be smeared on body
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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Red Powder: /Gam pounding bones into a meal to mix with red powder from a tree to rub into her kaross to soften and clean it
2001.29.2116 Red Powder: /Gam pounding bones into a meal to mix with red powder from a tree to rub into her kaross to soften and clean it
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Red Powder: /Gam pounding bones into a meal to mix with red powder from a tree to rub into her kaross to soften and clean it
2001.29.2115 Red Powder: /Gam pounding bones into a meal to mix with red powder from a tree to rub into her kaross to soften and clean it
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Bag filled with red powder used to color skins
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Wood
Africa