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Object Number
2004.24.6714
Display Title
Limande clan, stone set up on Birthday of father
Descriptions
Object Description
Stones set up to commemorate birth of father of individual who stands behind them. He is successory to headmanship of locality, which his father, now dead, held before him. Father appeared to have been about 55 when I saw him in 1921. I was informed that this was the old custom.
Subject
- Landscape
- Man
Department
Photographic
Date
1922
Artist
George Schwab
Culture
- Nen
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Cameroon
Additional Geographic Terms
Highlands
Materials
Negative, nitrate
Dimensions
Overall: 6.35 x 12.7 cm (2 1/2 x 5 in.)
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