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Object Number 2004.29.10311
Display Title Girl spinning cotton
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: Waiwai? / (Cariban) / Woyawoi girl spinning cotton / Taken by J. Ogilvie 1910-11.
Department Photographic
Date 1910-1911
Artist Rev. John W. Ogilvie
Culture
  • Waiwai
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Brazil
Dimensions Overall: 8.255 × 10.795 cm (3 1/4 × 4 1/4 in.)

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