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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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