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Left: five pointed iron blades; imitation of "iron money"; Right: iron money
Left: five pointed iron blades; imitation of "iron money"; Right: iron money
Object Number 2004.24.30674
Display Title Left: five pointed iron blades; imitation of "iron money"; Right: iron money
Descriptions
Keywords
  • Manufacture and General Utility
  • Ethnographic
Subject
  • Iron
  • Money
  • Medium Of Exchange
  • Blade
Department Photographic
Date 1984
Artist Hillel S. Burger
Culture
  • Yaounde
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Cameroon
Additional Geographic Terms Bantu, Northwestern; Cameroon, southern
Materials Negative, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 10.16 x 12.7 cm (4 x 5 in.)

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