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Object Number 2004.29.11953
Display Title Girls dancing
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Africa / Kishawabile? / Bantu? / Kichawabile? Dancing Girls / British East Africa / A. Agassiz Collection / From Mus. Comp. Zool. 1914"
Department Photographic
Date 1908
Culture
  • Bantu speaking peoples?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / British East Africa
Dimensions Overall: 12.7 × 20.32 cm (5 × 8 in.)
Provenance
Collector Alexander Agassiz
Donor Donated by Museum of Comparative Zoology

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