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Object Number 2004.24.5319
Display Title Bee hives woven out of grass
Descriptions
Object Description Mandingo
Subject
  • Landscape
Department Photographic
Date 1914
Artist Dr. S. B. Wolbach
Culture
  • Malinke
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Gambia

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