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Object Number 2004.24.31027
Display Title Man lying on ground, leaning against backrest
Descriptions
Keywords
  • People and Family
  • Ethnographic
  • Furnishing
Subject
  • Man
  • Backrest
Department Photographic
Date 1922
Artist Hillel S. Burger
Culture
  • Fang
  • Bene
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Cameroon
Dimensions Overall: 10.16 x 12.7 cm (4 x 5 in.)

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