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Final test pit of excavation
Object Number 998-14-00/1.3.108
Display Title Final test pit of excavation
Descriptions
Object Description Written on album page: "The final test pit, sunk to make sure we had reached barren earth"
Department Photographic
Date 1927-1928
Artist Milton Katz
Culture
  • Central and Equatorial African styles
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Cameroon / Tuscany / <County> / <City> / Goulfei
Africa / Belgian Congo
Materials Print, black and white on Album
Dimensions Overall: 11.7475 × 8.5725 cm (4 5/8 × 3 3/8 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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Final test pit of excavation
998-14-00/1.3.107 Final test pit of excavation
Goulfei
Belgian Congo
Final test pit of excavation
998-14-00/1.3.106 Final test pit of excavation
Goulfei
Belgian Congo
Trench around test-block
998-14-00/1.3.94 Trench around test-block
Goulfei
Belgian Congo
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
Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam sitting at table in Aba, post in the Belgian Congo
998-14-00/1.1.89 Patrick Tracy Lowell Putnam sitting at table in Aba, post in the Belgian Congo
Sudan
Belgian Congo
Wall, after excavation of test-block
998-14-00/1.3.104 Wall, after excavation of test-block
Goulfei
Belgian Congo
Wall, after excavation of test-block
998-14-00/1.3.105 Wall, after excavation of test-block
Goulfei
Belgian Congo
Excavating test-block
998-14-00/1.3.81 Excavating test-block
Belgian Congo
Goulfei
Excavating test-block
998-14-00/1.3.80 Excavating test-block
Belgian Congo
Goulfei
Test block, showing strata
998-14-00/1.3.86 Test block, showing strata
Belgian Congo
Goulfei
Test block, showing strata
998-14-00/1.3.87 Test block, showing strata
Goulfei
Belgian Congo