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Currency Piece (Zong)
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Kwele

Currency Piece (Zong)

Kwele (Western), 1700

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Kwele

Currency Piece (Zong)

Kwele (Western), 1700

Physical Qualities Iron, camwood, 51.3 H x 20 W cm.
Credit Line Purchased in Honor of Burton 'Buddy' Rosen with funds contributed by his Friends
Object Number 1999.174
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1999; purchased from Mona Gavigan, Gallery Affrica, Washington, D.C., in 1999.
Frederick John Lamp, "See the Music Hear the Dance: Rethinking African Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art." New York: Prestel, 2003, p.231, ill.

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