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Excavation at Gaoui
Object Number 998-14-00/1.3.1
Display Title Excavation at Gaoui
Descriptions
Object Description Written on album page: "Gaoui - point at which / we dug."
Department Photographic
Date 1927-1928
Artist Milton Katz
Culture
  • Central and Equatorial African styles
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Chad / <State> / <County> / <City> / Gaoui
Africa / Belgian Congo
Materials Print, black and white on Album
Dimensions Overall: 8.89 × 11.7475 cm (3 1/2 × 4 5/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Vivian Katz and Family of Milton Katz
Provenance
Collector Milton Katz (1927-1928)
Intermediary David Warrington
Donor Vivian Katz (5/8/98)

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Excavation site at Gaoui
998-14-00/1.2.245 Excavation site at Gaoui
French Sudan
Gaoui
View of Gaoui
998-14-00/1.2.243 View of Gaoui
Gaoui
French Sudan
Final test pit of excavation
998-14-00/1.3.107 Final test pit of excavation
Goulfei
Belgian Congo
Final test pit of excavation
998-14-00/1.3.108 Final test pit of excavation
Goulfei
Belgian Congo
Person carrying jar, huts in background
998-14-00/1.2.244 Person carrying jar, huts in background
Gaoui
French Sudan
Excavation, with Katabasi holding site number
998-14-00/1.2.71 Excavation, with Katabasi holding site number
Maffaling
Excavation site
998-14-00/1.2.70 Excavation site
Maffaling
View from a tower superposed on a mound
998-14-00/1.3.27 View from a tower superposed on a mound
Belgian Congo
Goulfei
Mound, location of test-block
998-14-00/1.3.77 Mound, location of test-block
Goulfei
Belgian Congo
Mound, location of test-block
998-14-00/1.3.76 Mound, location of test-block
Goulfei
Belgian Congo
Papyrus swamp in the main channel of the Nile River, south of Malakal
998-14-00/1.1.35 Papyrus swamp in the main channel of the Nile River, south of Malakal
Belgian Congo
Sudan
Papyrus swamp in the main channel of the Nile River, south of Malakal
998-14-00/1.1.36 Papyrus swamp in the main channel of the Nile River, south of Malakal
Belgian Congo
Sudan