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Gourd and blackening Hausa-Fulani Decorated container

X65.5233 Decorated container

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Object Name: Decorated container

Artist: Audu Mai Alijeta

Culture: Hausa-Fulani peoples

Place of Origin: Nigeria

Date/Era: 1924

Medium/Materials: Gourd, blackening

Dimensions: H: 23.5 cm

Credit Line: Fowler Museum at UCLA. Gift of the Wellcome Trust.

Accession Number: X65.5233

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Source: Marla C. Berns, World Arts, Local Lives: The Collections of the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, 2014

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