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Object Number 2004.24.13831B
Display Title Nge Cult leader's big medicine
Descriptions
Object Description Nge cult leader's big medicine. W. Africa: Southern Cameroon.
Subject
  • Leader
  • Cult
  • Ethnographic
  • Religion
  • medicine
  • Headman
Department Photographic
Date 1934
Artist George Schwab
Culture
  • Basa
  • Basa
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Cameroon
Dimensions Overall: 7.62 x 10.16 cm (3 x 4 in.)

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