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Making Palm oil
Object Number 2004.24.6690
Display Title Making Palm oil
Descriptions
Object Description bulu method of making palm oil, expressing the oil from boiled nuts. Bulu tribe - Bantu.
Keywords
  • Field
  • Floral
Subject
  • Ethnographic
  • Plate
  • Net
  • Rural
Department Photographic
Date 1922
Artist George Schwab
Culture
  • Bulu
  • Fang
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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