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Object Number 2004.29.12143
Display Title Selling potatoes
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Wakikuyu / Bahima Group? / Bakonjo? / Bantu / Theka falls - Kenya Colony / Kikuius selling potatoes / Gift of Dr. John C. Phillips. 1925"
Department Photographic
Date 1885-1925
Culture
  • Kikuyu
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Kenya
Additional Geographic Terms Thika Falls
Dimensions Overall: 12.065 × 17.145 cm (4 3/4 × 6 3/4 in.)
Provenance
Donor Donated by Dr. John C. Phillips

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Woman and child
2004.29.12141 Woman and child
Kenya
Market
2004.29.12142 Market
Kenya
Group of Kikuiu
2004.29.12140 Group of Kikuiu
Kenya
Group next to fish trap
2004.29.12144 Group next to fish trap
Africa
Selling gourds at market
2004.29.12139 Selling gourds at market
Africa
Three people in front of a hut
2004.29.12176 Three people in front of a hut
Africa
Woman and boy in front of hut
2004.29.12177 Woman and boy in front of hut
Africa
Child sitting under small hut, larger hut in background
2004.29.12164 Child sitting under small hut, larger hut in background
Africa
Canoe made of slabs of bark roughly sewed together
2004.29.12163 Canoe made of slabs of bark roughly sewed together
Africa
Women drying grain in courtyard of house
2004.29.12165 Women drying grain in courtyard of house
Uganda
Bridge
2004.29.12166 Bridge
Uganda
People in canoe on river, and people on shoreline
2004.29.12175 People in canoe on river, and people on shoreline
Congo