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Mandingo

Leather-Covered Container

Mandingo, Early 20th century

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Mandingo

Leather-Covered Container

Mandingo, Early 20th century

Physical Qualities Metal and leather, 9 x 7 cm.
Credit Line Gift of Catherine O'Carroll Bussell and Robert Bruce Bussell, Arlington, Virginia
Object Number 1998.440
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1998; collected in Liberia, probably March 23, 1927, as the gift of a Mr. Belton, of Great Britain, by the parents of donor (Bruce Bussell): Conrad Turner Bussell and Pauline Bussell. Mr. Bussell was sent by the U.S. Government under President Calvin Coolidge to survey the boundaries of Liberia. He was, instead, made Supervisor of Customs by President Charles Dunbar Burgess King of Liberia, and later made Financial Advisor to President King. Mrs. Bussell arrived in 1926.

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