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

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Object Number 39-39-50/4092

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

Descriptions

Indigenous Term mishswazi

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

Inventory Description Wooden stick, woven black and white 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

Dimensions Overall: 24.5 x 0.7 x 0.7 cm (9 5/8 x 1/4 x 1/4 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 39-39-50/4092

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PrimaryMedia	Object Number	Title	Classification	Geography/Provenience
	39-39-50/4091	Toothbrush - wooden stick with black, white and pink checkered 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
	994-21-50/13013	Toothbrush	Accessory	Botswana
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
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
	2009.9.4192	Wooden toothbrush head fragments	Tool	Harvard Yard

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