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Five shoulder bags
Object Number 2004.24.30407
Display Title Five shoulder bags
Descriptions
Keywords
  • Ethnographic
  • Household
Subject
  • Bag
  • wool
Department Photographic
Date 1938
Artist Hillel S. Burger
Culture
  • Huichol
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Mexico / Jalisco
Materials Negative, color
Dimensions Overall: 10.16 x 12.7 cm (4 x 5 in.)

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