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Object Number 2004.24.8721
Display Title Gio basketmaker
Descriptions
Object Description Gio basketmaker. Mende stock. Liberia, Africa. George Schwab, 1929-30. See: PM Papers, vol.XXXI, fig. 46, c. noted: "includes 2 prints" [the envelope contained no prints]
Subject
  • Craft
  • Method
  • Child
  • Hut
  • Man
  • Village
  • Basket
  • Ethnographic
  • Rural
Department Photographic
Date 1929
Artist George Schwab
Culture
  • Gio
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Liberia
Dimensions Overall: 7.62 x 10.16 cm (3 x 4 in.)

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