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Object Number
2004.29.11862
Display Title
Mats tied to roof of hut
Descriptions
Object Description
Written on board: "Basa Tribe / (Bantu) / Manner of typing on mats to / roof of hut. / Basa Tribe / Photographs by Rev. George Schwab. 1919-22"
Department
Photographic
Date
1919-1922
Artist
George Schwab
Culture
- Bantu speaking peoples
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
Dimensions
Overall: 10.795 × 6.985 cm (4 1/4 × 2 3/4 in.)
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PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
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| 2004.29.11748 | Hut made of palm thatch mats |
Africa
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| 2004.29.11837 | Man making palm roof mats |
Africa
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| 2004.29.11836 | Binding leaves around laths to make roof mats |
Africa
| ||
| 2004.29.11807 | Framework for the roof of a hut |
Africa
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| 2004.29.11842 | Hut with baskets for collecting termite larvae on roof |
Africa
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| 2004.29.11830 | Mat making - bringing in a bundle of stems of ndomboo for mats |
Africa
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| 2004.29.11833 | Man splitting raffia palm frond stems for lath in roof-mat making |
Africa
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| 2004.29.11834 | Man splitting raffia palm frond stems for lath in roof-mat making |
Africa
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| 2004.29.11835 | Roof mat making - "sewing" the leaflets with skewers |
Africa
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| 2004.29.11861 | Man constructing a roof |
Africa
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| 2004.29.11867 | Smelting - the roof over furnace |
Africa
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| 2004.29.11866 | Smelting - the roof over furnace |
Africa
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