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Object Number
08-4-10/72949
Display Title
Sweat house fire stick
Descriptions
Object Description
Sweat house fire stick, used to tend fire in sweat house
Inventory Description
Staff or sweat house fire stick, black, smoothed, curved handle at top
Classification
- Staff
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Yurok
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
California
/
Humboldt County
/
Weitchpec
Materials
Manzanita
Dimensions
Overall: 107 x 5.7 x 2.5 cm (42 1/8 x 2 1/4 x 1 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
72949
Provenance
Collector
Grace A. Nicholson
(?)
Collector
Mr. Carroll S. Hartman
(?)
Donor
Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow
(June 1908)
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