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Asante

Container for Cosmetics or Jewelry (Mforowa)

Asante, 1800-1899

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Container for Cosmetics or Jewelry (Mforowa)

Asante

Container for Cosmetics or Jewelry (Mforowa)

Asante

Container for Cosmetics or Jewelry (Mforowa)

Asante, 1800-1899

Physical Qualities Brass, silver, 17 H x 10.5 Diam cm.
Credit Line Gift of Helen 'Muffie' Lippincott McElhiney, Bethesda, Maryland
Object Number 1988.1331a-b
GEOMETRIC DESIGNS AND RAISED CIRCLES
Hand Held: Personal Arts from Africa

Culture

Asante

2000–2000

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