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Object Number 2004.24.8418
Display Title Market place before King Njoya's Palace
Descriptions
Object Description Market place before King Njoya's Palace, Bamum. Cameroon, Africa. George Schwab, 1929-30
Subject
  • palace
  • Building
  • Rural
  • Architecture
  • Market
  • Man
  • Ethnographic
Department Photographic
Date 1929
Artist George Schwab
Culture
  • Mum
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Cameroon
Additional Geographic Terms Highlands
Dimensions Overall: 7.62 x 10.16 cm (3 x 4 in.)

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King Njoya's Orchestra
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Njoya's palace of modern buildings
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Bamum King Njoya
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King Njoya
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Njoya's musicians with fiddles
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Favorite wives of the king
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Favorite wives of the king
2004.24.8456 Favorite wives of the king
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Men marching single file in Christmas parade for king
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Favorite wives of the king
2004.24.8454 Favorite wives of the king
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Four wives of the chief, king, ruler, one with umbilical herniation
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