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Royal vessel
View through The Met
Wood plant fiber, Luba peoples
The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection Purchase Nelson A. Rockefeller Gift 1971
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