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Box
Object Number 78-5-30/75994
Display Title Box
Descriptions
Inventory Description Box with lid, panels of palm leaf sewn into panels make up all sides
Classification
  • Box
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1878
Culture
  • Betoi?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Brazil
Additional Geographic Terms Vaupes RIver
Materials Palm leaf, Vegetable fiber
Dimensions Overall: 61 x 23 x 16 cm (24 x 9 1/16 x 6 5/16 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 75994
Credit Line Gift of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1878
Provenance
Collector Prof. Louis Agassiz
Donor Museum of Comparative Zoology (1878)

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