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Object Number 08-4-10/73512
Display Title Bone whistles
Descriptions
Inventory Description Whistle, bone, tubular, 1 perforation at center
Classification
  • Whistle
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Pueblo
  • Taos?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / New Mexico
Materials Bone
Dimensions Overall: 7.9 x 1.3 x 1.2 cm (3 1/8 x 1/2 x 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 73512
Provenance
Collector Grace A. Nicholson (1908)
Collector Mr. Carroll S. Hartman (1908)
Donor Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow (1908)

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