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Object Number 34-34-50/272
Display Title Yinni from women's bush school (brass)
Descriptions
Inventory Description Hammer, bronze rod, squared and flattened one end, tapered point other end
Classification
  • Hammer
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Liberia
Materials Bronze
Dimensions Overall: 21.2 x 1.3 x 1.1 cm (8 3/8 x 1/2 x 7/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 34-34-50/272
Provenance
Collector Alfred J. Tulk (1933)
Donor Donated by Alfred J. Tulk (1934)

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