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This mug contains harmful imagery and language including condescending caricatures.
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DESCRIPTION:
Earthenware children's mug. The central scene is described in the inscription as "The Ethiopians" and the figures are playing musical instruments and dancing in the foreground. On-lookers are in a carriage in the background. There is a green line encircling the interior of the mug.
mugs
earthenware
transfer printing
Mug
Mug
"THE ETHIOPIANS" (Dark purple transfer-printed)
MJ1970.72
Unknown
2 1/2 (H), 2 1/2 (diameter) (inches)
Bequest of Miss Margaret Jewell
1970.1310.72
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