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Object Number 2004.24.6925
Display Title Two men weaving raffia fibers on standing looms
Descriptions
Keywords
  • Field
  • Ethnographic
  • Manufacture and General Utility
Subject
  • Hut
  • Man
  • Loom
  • Floral
  • Rural
Department Photographic
Date 1921
Artist George Schwab
Culture
  • Basa
  • Basa
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Cameroon
Dimensions Overall: 6.35 x 11.43 cm (2 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.)

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