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Object Number 22-2-50/B3442
Display Title Knot; for tying domestic animals = iho nko; when used on traps =labenda
Descriptions
Inventory Description Unclassified tool, strand of vegetable fiber, run through looped end
Classification
  • Tools
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Basa?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Cameroon
Additional Geographic Terms Cameroon, southern
Dimensions Overall: 51 x 4.1 x 1.6 cm (20 1/16 x 1 5/8 x 5/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 22-2-50/B-3442

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