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Unknown, African Mimicry
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Unknown

African Mimicry

about 1910

Current Collection

J. Paul Getty Museum

Los Angeles, United States

Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
15.1 × 10 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-885629

Portrait of a man wearing a headdress made out of leaves and grass. The headdress is large and round. The grass is sticking up in two bunches, one on either end of the headdress like horns.

Provenance

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Registry history

  • about 1910 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs

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