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Object Number 2004.24.7492
Display Title Smelt shop - Bengge's
Descriptions
Object Description Singginapulos, Smelt hop-Bengges'
Subject
  • Tool
  • Man
  • Hut
  • Ethnographic
  • Rural
Department Photographic
Date 1929
Artist Patrick T. L. Putnam
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Zaire
Dimensions Overall: 6.35 x 8.89 cm (2 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.)

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