Archives Center - Selected African Holdings

Archives Center - Selected African Holdings

National Museum of American History

Selected items with African Origination

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Akan Gold Weight

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These brass weights were used by the Akan people of modern day Ghana and the Ivory Coast for measuring gold dust between the late thirteenth and early twentieth centuries. They …

An Egyptian shaduf, the oldest of well-sweeps, lifting the Nile waters to the thirsty fields. [Active no. 2552 : stereo …

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[War.] 3065 Interpositive

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Oasis of Elim, where the Israelites found water--halt of a caravan to Sinai. 11185 Interpositive

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[Algeria, possibly.] 2515 interpositive

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Long outlook E. from Sinai's summit over Wilderness towards Akaba and the Bay. 11361 Interpositive

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Embassy of Liberia 1978 [from enclosure] [black-and-white cellulose acetate photonegative]

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...[?]Zealand Hill...[?] Royal Irish. Copyright 1900 by Underwood & Undrwood. [On negative.] Active no. 22342 : photonegative

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La Fuite en Egypte 1006.5 Photonegative

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[Transport crossing Rhenoter River 38 miles north of Kroonstad, SA] on envelope 25685 interpositive

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