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"Firemaking": Firesticks in position for fire making with powdered charred wood (print is a cropped image)
"Firemaking": Firesticks in position for fire making with powdered charred wood (print is a cropped image)
Object Number 2001.29.30472
Display Title "Firemaking": Firesticks in position for fire making with powdered charred wood (print is a cropped image)
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written on label adhered to board (verso): "Marshall / 21 / Chap. 2"
Department Photographic
Date 1955
Culture
  • !Xóõ
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Botswana / Ghanzi / <County> / Okwa
Materials Print, black and white adhered to Light weight paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 16.51 × 20.32 cm (6 1/2 × 8 in.)
Quantity 1
Credit Line Gift of Laurence K. Marshall and Lorna J. Marshall
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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