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Wooden sledge or hammer for driving hut posts into earth
Wooden sledge or hammer for driving hut posts into earth
Object Number 22-2-50/B3439
Display Title Wooden sledge or hammer for driving hut posts into earth
Descriptions
Inventory Description Carved wooden hammer, cracked, cylindrical and bulbous.
Classification
  • Raw Material
  • Hammer
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Basa?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Cameroon
Additional Geographic Terms Cameroon, southern
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 51 x 12 x 11.5 cm (20 1/16 x 4 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object B3439

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