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Object Number 05-7-10/65491
Display Title Bird bone mat needle
Descriptions
Inventory Description Needle, carved bone, hollow, perforated, with twisted sinew string
Classification
  • Needle
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Quileute
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Washington
Materials Bone, Sinew
Dimensions Overall: 20.3 x 0.6 x 0.4 cm (8 x 1/4 x 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 65491
Provenance
Collector Grace A. Nicholson (?)
Donor Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow (1905)

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