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Bassa girls, with body painting, coming out of the bush period during their initiation rites, 20 miles north of Monrovia, Liberia
1959
African history · place not specified
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art. Visual details below describe the original material.
Cataloged as “Bassa girls, with body painting, coming out of the bush period during their initiation rites, 20 miles north of Monrovia, Liberia”.
- Collection
- Eliot Elisofon Field collection
- Archival grouping
- Eliot Elisofon Field collection / Liberia
- Catalog date
- 1959
- Cataloged creator or photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog reference: sova.eepa.1973-001_ref41684
Collection: Eliot Elisofon Field collection