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Chokwe

Staff

Chokwe, before 1918

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Chokwe

Staff

Chokwe, before 1918

Physical Qualities Wood, 30.5 H x 4.7 W x 6 D cm.
Credit Line Gift of Betsey and Stanley Heuisler, Baltimore
Object Number 2001.427
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2001; collected by John C. Wengatz, Methodist missionary in the Chokwe area for 27 years, who gave it to Harold Paul Sloan in 1918, grandfather of the donor, Betsey Heuisler.
BMA, 'New on View,' June 19-Oct. 6, 2002.

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