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Object Number
2004.24.8574
Display Title
Boys just out from Poro bush school
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations
Written on photograph: "Kpelle boys just out from Poro bush, Jensu. Liberia, Africa. George Schwab, 1929-30. fig 92a."
Subject
- Paint
- Body
- Ethnographic
- Blanket
- Costume
- Shawl
- Child
- Rural
- Hat
- Robe
- Boy
Department
Photographic
Date
1929
Artist
George Schwab
Culture
- Kpelle
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Liberia
/
<State>
/
<County>
/
<City>
/
Jensu
Materials
Negative, nitrate
Dimensions
Overall: 7.62 x 10.16 cm (3 x 4 in.)
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| PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004.24.8572 | Boys just out from Poro bush school |
Jensu
| ||
| 2004.24.8547 | Boys in Poro bush school |
Nama
| ||
| 2004.24.8527 | Person standing in front of the entrance to a Poro bush school |
Cameroon
| ||
| 2004.24.9066 | Entrance to Poro bush school with gate and stone circles |
Liberia
| ||
| 2004.24.8575 | Boys of government school |
Liberia
| ||
| 2004.24.9089 | Poro bush school |
Liberia
| ||
| 2004.24.8889 | Poro leader |
Zurii
| ||
| 2004.29.11669 | Poro bush school |
Liberia
| ||
| 2004.24.8653 | Female dance preparatory to opening to gree- gree bush school |
Liberia
| ||
| 2004.24.8642 | Dance - Preparatory to opening gree gree bush school |
Liberia
| ||
| 48-36-50/7383A | 2 iron and string "medicine" made by Flo Glu, Poro guardian of boys |
Tools
|
Guinea
| |
| 2004.24.8723 | Boy's devil |
Liberia
|