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Asante

Container for Cosmetics or Jewelry (Mforowa)

Asante, 1800-1899

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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
Nichole Bridges, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Hand Held: Personal Arts from Africa," Sept. 25, 2011-Feb. 5, 2012.

Culture

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2000–2000

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