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Type:
Articles
Place:
Senegal
Podor
Podor (Senegal)
Date:
1977
Notes:
Ilustrations, map, tables.
Report on a cache of metal jewelry discovered in Podor, Senegal, in 1958, and later deposited in three repositories: IFAN, Musée d'art africain, and CRDS, Saint-Louis. In this article, Thilmans describes the jewelry, which consists of metal rings, bracelets, beads and other artifacts; gives measurements, weights, and results of metallurgical analyses.
