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Object Number
2004.24.6857
Display Title
Children mashing plantains for supper
Descriptions
Keywords
- Floral
Subject
- Mortar
- Floral
- Child
- Woman
- House
- Food Preparation
Department
Photographic
Date
1920
Artist
George Schwab
Culture
- Fang
- Bene
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Cameroon
Materials
Negative, nitrate
Dimensions
Overall: 7.62 x 12.7 cm (3 x 5 in.)
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| PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004.29.11900 | Bene girl mashing plantains |
Africa
| ||
| 81-5-30/24146 | Roasted plantains |
Floral
|
Suriname
Dutch Guiana | |
| 2004.24.7424.1 | Plantains |
Kisangani
| ||
| 2004.24.7424.2 | Plantains |
Kisangani
| ||
| 48-56-70/3145 | Stone pestle for pounding bread fruit, plantains, or bruising taro |
Pestle
|
Mangaia?
| |
| 2004.29.11838 | Mashing yams |
Africa
| ||
| 22-2-50/B3438 | Wooden food mashing trough, used for separating outer fleshy fiber from oil palm |
Mortar
Raw Material |
Cameroon
| |
| 2004.29.11780 | Funnel of palm fronds lined with plantain leaves |
Africa
| ||
|
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for Woman sitting and mashing leaves in a mortar
| 2001.29.9553 | Woman sitting and mashing leaves in a mortar |
Tsumkwe
| ||
| 22-2-50/B3600 | Wooden food-mashing trough - upright |
Mortar
|
Cameroon
| |
| 09-3-30/75858 | Implement for mashing food |
Paddle
Raw Material |
Peru
| |
| 2005.3.72.20 | Young plantain |
British Guiana
|