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Object Number 2004.24.4796
Display Title Girls scraping skins off cassava bulbs
Descriptions
Subject
  • Expedition
  • Woman
Department Photographic
Date 1910
Artist Rev. John W. Ogilvie
Culture
  • Wapishana
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Guyana
Dimensions Overall: 7.62 x 10.16 cm (3 x 4 in.)

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Bulbs eaten green or dried and ground to flour, a brown skin has been rubbed off
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Floral
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Girls grating cassava
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Guyana
Girls grating cassava
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Brazil
Girl making cassava bread - in the act of patting cassava
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Guyana
Ceramic vessel, neck broken off, four bulbs around body.
78-22-10/14293 Ceramic vessel, neck broken off, four bulbs around body.
Complete Vessel
Raw Material
Mississippi County
Girl putting cassava in strainer
2004.24.4800 Girl putting cassava in strainer
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Girl grating cassava
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Guyana
Girl sifting cassava
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Guyana
Girl grating cassava
2004.24.4798 Girl grating cassava
Guyana
Girl sifting cassava
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Guyana
Girl grating cassava
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Guyana