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Chief Towi and his "Medicines"
Chief Towi and his "Medicines"
Object Number 2004.24.8675
Display Title Chief Towi and his "Medicines"
Descriptions
Object Description Chief Toroi and his "medicines." Gio, Mende stock. George Schwab, 1929-30
Subject
  • Brass
  • Anklet
  • Headgear
  • Leopard
  • Top Hat
  • Ethnographic
  • Jewelry
  • Man
  • medicine
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
Chief Towi's palaver house
2004.24.8650 Chief Towi's palaver house
Liberia
Chief Towi with some wives
2004.24.8686 Chief Towi with some wives
Liberia
Chief Towi and wives
2004.24.8637 Chief Towi and wives
Liberia
Chief Towi and wives
2004.24.8646 Chief Towi and wives
Liberia
Groups, "Nuclear Family": "/Gao Music," his wife, ≠Nisa (daughter of "Gao Medicine), and /Qui ("/Gao Music's" son with his first wife, "Gao Medicine's" sister) standing in front of a skerm
2001.29.1963 Groups, "Nuclear Family": "/Gao Music," his wife, ≠Nisa (daughter of "Gao Medicine), and /Qui ("/Gao Music's" son with his first wife, "Gao Medicine's" sister) standing in front of a skerm
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Group of people sitting in "Gao Medicine's" werft, including his father, his sister Khuan//a, and her husband //Ao
2001.29.14036 Group of people sitting in "Gao Medicine's" werft, including his father, his sister Khuan//a, and her husband //Ao
Gautscha
Large group of people sitting in "Gao Medicine's" werft, including his father, Khuan//a (his sister) and her husband //Ao, and members of Band 4 ("Old /Gaishay's" band) visiting
2001.29.14033 Large group of people sitting in "Gao Medicine's" werft, including his father, Khuan//a (his sister) and her husband //Ao, and members of Band 4 ("Old /Gaishay's" band) visiting
Gautscha
[No folder title]: Large group of people sitting in "Gao Medicine's" werft, including his father, Khuan//a (his sister) and her husband //Ao, and members of Band 4 ("Old /Gaishay's" band) visiting (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30152 [No folder title]: Large group of people sitting in "Gao Medicine's" werft, including his father, Khuan//a (his sister) and her husband //Ao, and members of Band 4 ("Old /Gaishay's" band) visiting (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Sinue [sinew]: Khwo//o-/Gasa making a cord, sitting in front of a skerm with a group of people including ≠Gao (her husband) with his hand over his face and /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" wife) with her arm on her knee
2001.29.2119 Sinue [sinew]: Khwo//o-/Gasa making a cord, sitting in front of a skerm with a group of people including ≠Gao (her husband) with his hand over his face and /Naoka ("Gao Medicine's" wife) with her arm on her knee
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
[No folder title]: Group of people sitting in "Gao Medicine's" werft, including his father, his sister Khuan//a, and her husband //Ao (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30112 [No folder title]: Group of people sitting in "Gao Medicine's" werft, including his father, his sister Khuan//a, and her husband //Ao (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Old man wearing his medicine, half Grebo Kunebo clan
2004.24.8866 Old man wearing his medicine, half Grebo Kunebo clan
Liberia
Village medicine man and chief's grave
2004.24.9054 Village medicine man and chief's grave
Liberia