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Object Number
2004.24.9181
Display Title
Women drying tobacco in the sun
Descriptions
Object Description
Drying tobacco. Mano, Mende stock. Liberia, Africa. George Schwab, 1929-30
Subject
- Woman
- Ethnographic
- drying
- Method
- Bowl
- Hut
- Tobacco
Department
Photographic
Date
1929
Artist
George Schwab
Culture
- Ngere
- Mano
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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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004.24.8767 | Men drying yarn |
Liberia
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| 2004.24.8717 | Women hulling rice |
Liberia
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| 2004.24.8605 | Women and boys extracing palm oil using mortar and pestle |
Liberia
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| 2004.24.14158 | Drying oil palm nuts |
Cameroon
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| 2004.24.8689 | Women performing welcome dance around Mrs. Schwab |
Liberia
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| 2004.24.8693 | Women performing welcome dance around Mrs. Schwab |
Liberia
| ||
| 2004.24.9189 | Young boy walking on stilts with aid of another boy in hat, and women looking on |
Liberia
| ||
| 2004.24.9104 | Three women of varying ages, center woman is head medicine woman |
Liberia
| ||
| 2004.24.9053 | Three women carrying large loads |
Liberia
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| 2004.24.9083 | Women dying cloth in large cauldron |
Liberia
| ||
| 2004.24.8727 | No. 13 women measured - lateral view |
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| ||
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