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Object Number 2004.24.32638
Display Title Waiwai women grating cassava
Descriptions
Object Description Photo: J. Ogilvie, 1910-11
Keywords
  • Ethnographic
  • Household
Subject
  • Grating Cassava
  • Woman
  • People
  • 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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