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Medicine sticks
Object Number 2004.24.33153
Display Title Medicine sticks
Descriptions
Keywords
  • Manufacture and General Utility
  • Ethnographic
Subject
  • Medicine Artifact
  • Stick
Department Photographic
Date 1991
Artist Hillel S. Burger
Culture
  • San
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia
Additional Geographic Terms Nyae Nyae Area; Kalahari Desert; Gautsche Pan, vicinity of
Materials Negative, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 5.72 cm (2 1/4 in.)

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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
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Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Media Restricted
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2004.24.33751.3 Native sailing chart made of sticks (00-8-70/55586)
Marshall Islands
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2004.24.33751.5 Native sailing chart made of sticks (00-8-70/55586)
Marshall Islands
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2004.24.33751.2 Native sailing chart made of sticks (00-8-70/55586)
Marshall Islands