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Tales of Koumba: Golo the Monkey and Dancing Girls

1978

Senegal, West Africa, Africa

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A relief print depicting two nude female figures with a monkey. The two female figures are dancing at the left side of the image and the monkey sits to the right. Between them is a low cooking pot over a fire. A hut with a domed roof appears in the center background, with leaves and foliage surrounding the top and outside edges of the print. The title of the print [Gulo(sic) The Monkey and Dancing Girls] is written in pencil on the bottom left side and it is signed [James L. Wells] on the right.

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Catalog reference: 2023.111.52

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