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Individual making balls of gala leaves for blue dye
Individual making balls of gala leaves for blue dye
Object Number 2004.24.8899
Display Title Individual making balls of gala leaves for blue dye
Descriptions
Object Description Balls of "gala" leaves for blue dye. Mano, Mende stock. Liberia, Africa. George Schwab, 1929-30. See: PM Papers, vol. XXXI, fig. 60, e
Keywords
  • Manufacture and General Utility
  • Studio
  • Ethnographic
Subject
  • dye
  • Rural
  • Leaf
  • Method
  • Ball
  • Leaves
  • Ethnographic
Department Photographic
Date 1929
Artist George Schwab
Culture
  • Mano
  • Ngere
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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