Toothbrush - wooden stick with black, white and pink checkered matting wound aro – Objects

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Object Number 39-39-50/4091

Display Title Toothbrush - wooden stick with black, white and pink checkered matting wound aro

Descriptions

Indigenous Term mishswazi

Object Description Toothbrush - wooden stick with black, white and pink checkered matting wound around it ("mishswazi")

Inventory Description Wooden stick, woven black, purple and brown checkered cover.

Classification

Tools

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Banyaruanda

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Africa / Uganda

Additional Geographic Terms Uganda, Southwest: Kigezi District: Nyakabande; Lake Mutanda, near

Materials Wood, Fiber, Pigment

Dimensions Overall: 15.5 x 0.8 x 0.8 cm (6 1/8 x 5/16 x 5/16 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 39-39-50/4091

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PrimaryMedia	Object Number	Title	Classification	Geography/Provenience
	39-39-50/4092	Toothbrush - wooden stick with black and white checkered grass matting wound aro	Tools	Uganda
	39-39-50/3935	Bow used for ceremonial purposes in a dance, wound with checkered pattern straw	Bow	Uganda
	39-39-50/3937	Bow used for ceremonial purposes in a dance, wound with checkered pattern straw	Bow	Uganda
	39-39-50/3936	Bow used for ceremonial purposes in a dance, wound with checkered pattern straw	Bow	Uganda
	39-39-50/3933	Bow used for ceremonial purposes in a dance, wound with checkered pattern straw	Bow	Uganda
	39-39-50/3934	Bow used for ceremonial purposes in a dance, wound with checkered pattern straw	Bow	Uganda
	37-32-50/2522	Toothbrush - made from a vine	Raw Material Tools	Cameroon
Image Not Available for Rim sherd of black on white ware with checkered design	47-12-10/28019	Rim sherd of black on white ware with checkered design		Class 5; ruin A; Ruin Canyon Ruin
Image Not Available for Fragment from neck of black on white pitcher. checkered design	47-12-10/27903	Fragment from neck of black on white pitcher. checkered design		Class 2; ruin C
Image Not Available for Sherd of black on white ware checkered design	47-12-10/27905	Sherd of black on white ware checkered design		Class 2; ruin C
	994-21-50/13013	Toothbrush	Accessory	Botswana
	2009.9.4192	Wooden toothbrush head fragments	Tool	Harvard Yard

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