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Image Not Available for Wooden container, associated with pair of twin figures.
Wooden container, associated with pair of twin figures.
Image Not Available for Wooden container, associated with pair of twin figures.
Object Number 2023.18.24C
Display Title Wooden container, associated with pair of twin figures.
Descriptions
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • West Africa
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Benin
Materials Wood
Quantity 1
Credit Line Gift of Alessandra Piontelli, MD, 2023

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