Dance - Preparatory to opening gree gree bush school – Objects

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Object Number 2004.24.8642

Display Title Dance - Preparatory to opening gree gree bush school

Descriptions

Transcribed Annotations Written on photograph: "Gio dance, preparatory to opening gree gree bush. Mende stock. Liberia, Africa. George Schwab, 1929-30"

Subject

Dance
Hut
Ethnographic
Dress
Performance
Rural
Village

Department Photographic

Date 1929

Artist George Schwab

Culture

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Africa / Liberia

Materials Negative, nitrate

Dimensions Overall: 7.62 x 10.16 cm (3 x 4 in.)

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