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Photograph was edited for publication purposes. Photograph caption dated March 30, 1965 reads, "Boo! - Striking ceremonial masks from Africa will be on view at the Los Angeles County Museum in new Hall of African Ethnology beginning Thursday. Displayed here by Miss Carol Bumgardner of the museum staff, are a Batatela cult initiation mask from the Congo, left, and a Gelede Society mask from the Yoruba tribe of Nigeria."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Los Angeles County Museum Museum exhibits--California--Los Angeles Museum docents--California--Los Angeles Women--California--Los Angeles Masks--Congo (Democratic Republic) Masks--Exhibitions Masks, African Masks, Yoruba Exposition Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) University Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Portrait photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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