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Object Number 2004.24.6698B
Display Title Smithy where the iron from the furnace is heated
Descriptions
Keywords
  • Ethnographic
  • Field
  • Manufacture and General Utility
Subject
  • Smithy
  • Basket
Department Photographic
Date 1922
Artist George Schwab
Culture
  • Basa
  • Basa
  • Bantu speaking peoples
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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Smithy where the iron from the furnace is heated
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Smithy where the iron from the furnace is heated
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Liberia
Two men working at smithy
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Interior of smithy
2004.24.6763C Interior of smithy
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Interior of smithy
2004.24.6763B Interior of smithy
Cameroon