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Two individuals pressing palm nuts to extract the palm oil
Two individuals pressing palm nuts to extract the palm oil
Object Number 2004.24.6689A
Display Title Two individuals pressing palm nuts to extract the palm oil
Descriptions
Object Description Making Palm oil, Basa method of expressing palm oil by treading it out, after water has been poured over nuts.
Keywords
  • Manufacture and General Utility
  • Field
  • Ethnographic
Subject
  • Palm Oil
  • Preparing
Department Photographic
Date 1922
Artist George Schwab
Culture
  • Basa
  • Basa
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Cameroon
Materials Negative, nitrate
Dimensions Overall: 6.35 x 11.43 cm (2 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.)

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