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Four Tagalog girls making casting nets
Four Tagalog girls making casting nets
Object Number 12-61-70/10861.1.2904
Display Title Four Tagalog girls making casting nets
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Tagalog / 39-h 1 / Four Tagalog girls engaged in the manufacture of two circular casting nets. Hanging on the wall is an embroidery frame with a piece of partially embroidered pina cloth upon it. / Gift of / W. C. Forbes, 1912"
Department Photographic
Date 1898-1912
Culture
  • Tagalog
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Philippines / Luzon / Cavite Province / Bacoor
Materials Print, black and white adhered to Paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 10.16 x 15.24 cm (4 x 6 in.)
Provenance
Donor William Cameron Forbes

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