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Object Number 2004.29.11853
Display Title Woman carrying basket on back
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Basa Tribe / (Bantu) / Yaunde (a Fang tribe) and / Basa mixture - The basket is such / as Fang women use - not Basa / Photo's by Rev. George Schwab 1919-22. / Basa"
Department Photographic
Date 1919-1922
Artist George Schwab
Culture
  • Fang
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
Dimensions Overall: 10.795 × 6.985 cm (4 1/4 × 2 3/4 in.)

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