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Object Number 2010.5.36796
Display Title Sampans, nets drying
Descriptions
Keywords
  • Ethnographic
  • Fishing
  • Water Transport
  • Geography
Subject
  • Sampan
  • Water
  • Net
  • Boat
Department Photographic
Date 1937
Artist Owen Lattimore
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia / China
Dimensions Overall: 3.5 cm (1 3/8 in.)

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