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Object Number 2004.24.31264
Display Title Five spindle whorls
Descriptions
Keywords
  • Manufacture and General Utility
  • Ethnographic
Subject
  • Spindle
  • Whorl
Department Photographic
Date 1986
Artist Hillel S. Burger
Culture
  • Peripheral Mande
  • Kru
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Liberia
Dimensions Overall: 10.16 x 12.7 cm (4 x 5 in.)

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