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Object Number 2004.24.13871
Display Title Taking Cocoa beans from pods
Descriptions
Object Description Taking Cocoa beans from pods. W. Africa: SOuthern Cameroon.
Subject
  • Pod
  • Ethnographic
  • Cocoa
  • Process
  • Bean
  • Food
Department Photographic
Date 1934
Artist George Schwab
Culture
  • Basa
  • Basa
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Cameroon
Dimensions Overall: 7.62 x 10.16 cm (3 x 4 in.)

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