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Object Number 2004.24.32634
Display Title Waiwai girl spinning cotton
Descriptions
Object Description Photo by J. Ogilvie, 1910-11
Keywords
  • Ethnographic
Subject
  • Family
  • Girl
  • People
  • Spinning Cotton
  • Manufacturing
Department Photographic
Date 1910
Artist Hillel S. Burger
Culture
  • Waiwai
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Guyana
Dimensions Overall: 10.16 x 12.7 cm (4 x 5 in.)

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