Switch hung over belt - antelope tails – Objects

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Object Number 31-22-50/B5036

Display Title Switch hung over belt - antelope tails

Descriptions

Inventory Description Fly switch, animal hair and hide attached to bent horn/metal handle w/ veg fibe

Classification

Fly whisk

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Luba-Samba

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Africa / Belgian Congo

Materials Animal hair, Hide, Vegetable fiber, Metal, Horn

Dimensions Overall: 39 x 2.7 x 2.6 cm (15 3/8 x 1 1/16 x 1 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 31-22-50/B5036

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