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African Headdress
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Rights: © Hale Woodruff / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Department of Prints
E. Thomas Williams Jr. New York New York gift; to Harvard University Art Museums December 18 1998.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Auldlyn Higgins Williams and E. Thomas Williams Jr. (Design School Visiting Committee 1984-89) in honor of their daughters Brooke Higgins Bing Williams Harvard College 1988 and Eden Branford Bing Williams Harvard College 1991
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