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Object Number 998-14-00/1.1.146
Display Title Elephant farm, Gangara
Descriptions
Object Description Written on album page: "Elephant farm at Gangara. The young elephants / are captured, and broken in stocks. This farm and / another at a nearby post represent the first successful / attempt to train the African Elephant."
Department Photographic
Date 1927-1928
Artist Milton Katz
Culture
  • Central and Equatorial African styles
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Belgian Congo
Dimensions Overall: 8.255 × 10.4775 cm (3 1/4 × 4 1/8 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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