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Object Number
2017.11.2.127
Display Title
Sweet potato shop
Descriptions
Object Description
Written on photograph (verso): "Ishinomaki / 11 Nov 51 / Sweet potato shop / "tsuboyaki" / (they sell water-ice (like sno-cone) / in the summer according to / the sign) / The girl almost had hysterics / when I took her picture"
Department
Photographic
Date
November 11, 1951
Artist
Dr. George A. Butler
Culture
- Japanese
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia
/
Japan
/
Miyagi
Additional Geographic Terms
Ishinomaki
Materials
Print, black and white
Dimensions
Overall: 7.62 × 11.43 cm (3 × 4 1/2 in.)
Quantity
1
Credit Line
Gift of Alan Butler
Provenance
Donor
Donated by
Alan Butler
(7/21/2017)
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017.11.2.2 | Sweet potato vendor |
Miyagi
| ||
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Documentary
|
New Guinea
| |
| 2006.17.1.172.14 | Wumlake eats sweet potato |
Documentary
|
New Guinea
| |
| 2006.17.1.154.9 | Same. Alugu eating sweet potato. Scrapes off ash. |
Documentary
|
New Guinea
| |
| 2006.17.1.157.1 | Medek and Halu (alugu's sons) eat sweet potato. |
Documentary
|
New Guinea
| |
| 2006.17.1.174.4 | Egabue hands sweet potato in door of men's house |
Documentary
|
New Guinea
| |
| 2006.17.1.174.3 | Egabue hands sweet potato in door of men's house |
Documentary
|
New Guinea
| |
| 2006.15.1.31.15 | Woman eating a sweet potato in a hunu |
Documentary
|
New Guinea
| |
| 2006.15.1.31.14 | Woman with sweet potato in a hunu |
Documentary
|
New Guinea
| |
| 2004.24.6790B | Woman standing in front of hut covered with sweet potato vines |
Cameroon
| ||
| 2017.11.2.171 | Display of sweet potatoes |
Miyagi
| ||
| 2017.11.2.124 | Basket shop |
Miyagi
|