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Object Number 2004.29.11571
Display Title Hut with façade across gable end
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Yambasa Tribe / Bongo / Nilotic-Azande / (Bantu) / Very old huts have this sort of façade across / gable end. / Yambasa Tribe / Taken by G. Schwab, 1919-22."
Department Photographic
Date 1919-1922
Artist George Schwab
Culture
  • Yambasa
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
Dimensions Overall: 6.35 × 10.795 cm (2 1/2 × 4 1/4 in.)

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Two women standing, with man in background
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Method of tying the corners of the gable end of a hut
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