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Object Number
2004.24.8526
Display Title
Young person visiting sacred site
Descriptions
Object Description
Kpwele - Town sacred place. Liberia, Africa. George Schwab, 1929-30. See PM Papers, vol. XXXI, fig. 36, 1.
Subject
- Paint
- Basket
- Rural
- Pot
- Bowl
- Ethnographic
- Human
- Religion
- Child
Department
Photographic
Date
1930
Artist
George Schwab
Culture
- Kpelle
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Cameroon
Materials
Negative, nitrate
Dimensions
Overall: 7.62 x 10.16 cm (3 x 4 in.)
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| 2004.24.8527 | Person standing in front of the entrance to a Poro bush school |
Cameroon
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| 2004.24.8875 | Men at deserted town on the tie-kunebo route |
Liberia
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| 2004.24.8873 | Deserted town on the tie-kunebo route |
Liberia
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| 2004.24.8823 | Tuabo clan, town drums |
Liberia
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| 2004.24.8499 | Number 20 man measured |
Cameroon
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| 2004.24.8505 | Old man on stool fixing cracked calabash, bowl or food container |
Cameroon
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| 2004.24.8503 | Drawing, on hut or animal skin of humanoid figure and designs |
Cameroon
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| 2004.24.8504 | Drawing, on hut or animal skin, of various designs |
Cameroon
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| 2004.24.8919 | Place before Palaver house |
Liberia
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| 2004.24.8911 | Sapo, Palepo clan, medicine place before palaver house. |
Yopolo
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| 2004.24.8918 | Sapo clan, place before palaver house |
Liberia
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| 2004.24.8903 | Sapo clan, Palaver house and village medicine place |
Liberia
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