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Object Number
00-8-70/55554
Display Title
Shell adze blade
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Adz blade, shell?, triangular
Classification
- Adze
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Marshall Islands
Materials
Shell
Dimensions
Overall: 7.9 x 4.3 x 1.3 cm (3 1/8 x 1 11/16 x 1/2 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
55554; Marshall Is / Dr. Bartells
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|
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| |
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|
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|
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| |
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|
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| |
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|
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|
Federated States of Micronesia
| |
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Adze
|
New Guinea
|