Divining outfit: "thorn" spine of fish, synodontis pardalis (probably)

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Object Number 22-2-50/B3108

Display Title Divining outfit: "thorn" spine of fish, synodontis pardalis (probably)

Descriptions

Object Description Divining outfit: "thorn" spine of fish, synodontis pardalis (probably)

Inventory Description Spine, barbed spine, grooved, reddish, part of divining outfit

Classification

Bone

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Basa?

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Africa / Cameroon

Additional Geographic Terms Cameroon, southern

Materials Animal bone

Dimensions Overall: 5.1 x 1.1 x 0.8 cm (2 x 7/16 x 5/16 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object B-3108

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Image Not Available for Organic, faunal remain, bones and teeth, ocelot, Felis cf. pardalis	968-38-20/76501	Organic, faunal remain, bones and teeth, ocelot, Felis cf. pardalis	Faunal Remain	Seibal
	22-2-50/B3102	Divining outfit: breast bone of the guinea fowl, guttera plumifbra	Bone	Cameroon
	22-2-50/B3103	Divining outfit: leopard's leg bone	Bone	Cameroon
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	07-5-10/72423	Fish hooks and line. Line made of Apocynum. Hooks made from thorns of black haw.	Fishhook	Idaho
	22-2-50/B3105	Divining outfit: one-half lower jaw of civet cat	Faunal	Cameroon
	22-2-50/B3353	Divining outfit: pangolin scale; "ko" = white clay, probably kaolin - was this	Charm	Cameroon
Image Not Available for Bone, fish spines, claws, sting ray spines	33-42-20/895.1	Bone, fish spines, claws, sting ray spines	Faunal Remain	Sitio Conte
	22-2-50/B3044	Divining objects, leg bones of rano goliath	Bone	Cameroon
	22-2-50/B3046	Divining objects, skull of forest rat, cricetonys gambianus	Bone	Cameroon
	22-2-50/B3057	Divining object, skull of unknown animal, unclassified	Bone	Cameroon
	22-2-50/B3106	Divining outfit: pieces of skull of scale-tailed squirrel	Faunal	Cameroon

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