Scissors

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Object Number 37-32-50/2396

Display Title Scissors

Descriptions

Inventory Description Shears, flat iron, looped handles, one wrapped with hide, hinged blades

Classification

Shears

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Bafia

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Africa / Cameroon

Additional Geographic Terms Cameroon, southern: Mbam River, along the

Materials Iron, Hide

Dimensions Overall: 26 x 10 x 1.1 cm (10 1/4 x 3 15/16 x 7/16 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 37-32-50/2396

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