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Object Number 2004.24.8890
Display Title Market and chief Wo at Zurii
Descriptions
Object Description Marker and Chief Wo, at Zunii. Mano tribe, Mende stock. Liberia, Africa. George Schwab, 1929-30. See: PM Papers, vol. XXXI, fig. 60, f
Subject
  • Leader
  • Chief
  • Chair
  • Man
  • Ethnographic
  • Rural
Department Photographic
Date 1929
Artist George Schwab
Culture
  • Ngere
  • Mano
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Liberia / <State> / <County> / <City> / Zurii
Dimensions Overall: 7.62 x 10.16 cm (3 x 4 in.)

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Entrance to paramount Chief Wo's Zurii compound
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Sesengge and two wives
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Men forging river on raft or ferry
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Mano man
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Mano man
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