Native woman with hair decoration possible cowry shells, earrrings and necklace

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Object Number 2004.24.6860B

Display Title Native woman with hair decoration possible cowry shells, earrrings and necklace

Descriptions

Object Description a) Well kept native children, b) Native woman, c) Over fed children

Subject

Shell
Woman
Jewelry
Earring
Necklace

Department Photographic

Date 1920

Artist George Schwab

Culture

Fang
Bene

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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Object Number	Title	Classification	Geography/Provenience
2004.24.6860C	Two children		Cameroon
2004.24.6860A	Two children in white dresses		Cameroon
2004.24.8573	Woman with body scarification, carrying child with matted hair and cowry shells		Jensu
2004.29.23272	Woman with two children wearing necklaces and girdles made of shell money		Vanuatu Malo Island
2020.3.22	Necklace of plant segments, multicolored glass beads, leather pendant with cowry shells	Necklace	Tanzania
2015.2.26.28	A Chhetri Hindu mother in Nira village grooms her daughter's hair with mustard oil and cowry shells in preparation for the social dances that celebrate the first days of rice planting		Nepal
2001.29.2842	Children, Mother and children: Woman with scarification, wearing blue beads, sitting and nursing a child		Nyae Nyae Conservancy
2001.29.1360	Children, Mothers nursing babies: //Khuga (wife of !Naishi, headman of Band 5) pounding something with a mortar and pestle, sitting with Khwo//o (mother of "/Gao Music" and /Goishay, half-sister of "/Qui Navel" in Band 1) and !U with !Ungka Norna (after her hair was cut)		Nyae Nyae Conservancy
2004.24.14602	Native children watching a monkey		Uganda
2004.24.14595	Native children of Mount Elgon with monkey		Uganda
2004.24.8535	Woman with child and baby		Cameroon
2004.24.6900B	Man sitting next to basket used to catch larvae of termites		Cameroon

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