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Model, tent poles
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Object Number 82-45-10/27581
Display Title Model, tent poles
Descriptions
Inventory Description Sticks, pointed ends, bundled
Classification
  • Building fragment
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Sioux?
  • Omaha?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 123 x 5.5 cm (48 7/16 x 2 3/16 in.)
Quantity 13
Label on object 27581
Provenance
Collector Alice C. Fletcher (1881 - November 1882)

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