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Object Number
2004.24.8656
Display Title
Clearing where women go to give birth
Descriptions
Object Description
Place where women go to bear children. Gio, Mende stock. Liberia, Africa. George Schwab, 1929-30
Subject
- Ethnographic
- Clearing
- Rural
- Labor
- Woman
- Birth
- Child
Department
Photographic
Date
1929
Artist
George Schwab
Culture
- Gio
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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PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
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| 2004.24.8689 | Women performing welcome dance around Mrs. Schwab |
Liberia
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| 2004.24.9188 | Village sacrificial place |
Liberia
| ||
| 2004.24.8693 | Women performing welcome dance around Mrs. Schwab |
Liberia
| ||
| 2004.24.8727 | No. 13 women measured - lateral view |
Liberia
| ||
| 2004.24.8636 | Decorated women, various styles of brass anklets and other personal decoration |
Liberia
| ||
| 2004.24.9189 | Young boy walking on stilts with aid of another boy in hat, and women looking on |
Liberia
| ||
| 2004.24.9116 | View of clearing, hut, and sacred mountain in distance |
Liberia
| ||
| 2004.24.8895 | Bellows in clearing |
Liberia
| ||
| 2004.24.8787 | Island where first colonists landed |
Monrovia
| ||
| 2004.24.8798 | Bush shelter where carriers dropped us |
Liberia
| ||
| 2004.24.8879 | Sabo clan, where, oh where are the carriers? |
Liberia
| ||
| 2004.24.9053 | Three women carrying large loads |
Liberia
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