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Object Number 2004.29.12124
Display Title Woman carrying child and load of firewood
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Wakikuyu / Bantu / Kikuyu (Bantu) Uganda. / A. Agassiz Collection. / Mus. Comp. Zool., June. 1914."; printed on photograph: "Kikuyu woman carrying load / H. Binks Nairobi. Copyright."
Department Photographic
Date 1908
Artist H. K. Binks
Culture
  • Kikuyu
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Uganda
Dimensions Overall: 15.24 × 10.795 cm (6 × 4 1/4 in.)
Provenance
Collector Alexander Agassiz
Donor Donated by Museum of Comparative Zoology

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