Sticks for fish net?

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Object Number 78-5-30/16789

Display Title Sticks for fish net?

Descriptions

Inventory Description Bundle of sticks, most forked at one end, notched at the other

Classification

Fishing and trapping

Department Ethnographic

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

South America / Brazil

Materials Wood

Dimensions Overall: 85 x 21 x 18 cm (33 7/16 x 8 1/4 x 7 1/16 in.)

Quantity 1

Provenance

Collector Prof. Louis Agassiz (1878)

Collector Hassler Expedition (1878)

Donor Museum of Comparative Zoology (1878)

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