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Object Number 2004.29.12355
Display Title Studio portrait of a woman sitting
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Basuto / Bantu / Basutoland women. So. Africa 1898. /Gift of Benjamin Agnew, Central Wharf, Boston thru E. N. Williams, Vernon St. Brookline"
Department Photographic
Date 1898
Culture
  • Bantu speaking peoples
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / South Africa
Dimensions Overall: 13.0175 × 8.89 cm (5 1/8 × 3 1/2 in.)
Provenance
Donor Donated by Benjamin S. Agnew

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