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Object Number 39-39-50/4186
Display Title Shoulder blade - used to plaster mud in building houses or as percussion instrum
Descriptions
Indigenous Term magufwa ninka
Object Description Shoulder blade - used to plaster mud in building houses or as +
Inventory Description Bone, possibly used as tool
Classification
  • Bone
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Banyaruanda
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Uganda
Additional Geographic Terms Uganda, Southwest: Kigezi District: Nyakabande; Lake Mutanda, near
Materials Bone
Dimensions Overall: 36 x 15 x 4 cm (14 3/16 x 5 7/8 x 1 9/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 39-39-50/4186

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Image Not Available for Shoulder blade - used to plaster mud in building houses or as percussion instrum
39-39-50/4187 Shoulder blade - used to plaster mud in building houses or as percussion instrum
Uganda
Image Not Available for Shoulder blade - used to plaster mud in building houses or as percussion instrum
39-39-50/4185 Shoulder blade - used to plaster mud in building houses or as percussion instrum
Uganda
Image Not Available for Shoulder blade - used to plaster mud in building houses or as percussion instrum
39-39-50/4184 Shoulder blade - used to plaster mud in building houses or as percussion instrum
Uganda
Image Not Available for Cane and mud houses Forteliza Valley
2010.2.2.5.60.13 Cane and mud houses Forteliza Valley
Peru
Image Not Available for Cane and mud houses Forteliza Valley
2010.2.2.5.60.14 Cane and mud houses Forteliza Valley
Peru
Image Not Available for Indigenous reed, stick and mud houses along side Panamericana North of San Pedro de Lloc San Pedro de Lloc
2010.2.2.5.107.26 Indigenous reed, stick and mud houses along side Panamericana North of San Pedro de Lloc San Pedro de Lloc
Peru
Image Not Available for Indigenous reed, stick and mud houses along side Panamericana North of San Pedro de Lloc San Pedro de Lloc
2010.2.2.5.107.24 Indigenous reed, stick and mud houses along side Panamericana North of San Pedro de Lloc San Pedro de Lloc
Peru
Image Not Available for Indigenous reed, stick and mud houses along side Panamericana North of San Pedro de Lloc San Pedro de Lloc
2010.2.2.5.107.25 Indigenous reed, stick and mud houses along side Panamericana North of San Pedro de Lloc San Pedro de Lloc
Peru
Image Not Available for Indigenous reed, stick and mud houses along side Panamericana North of San Pedro de Lloc San Pedro de Lloc
2010.2.2.5.107.27 Indigenous reed, stick and mud houses along side Panamericana North of San Pedro de Lloc San Pedro de Lloc
Peru
Image Not Available for Indigenous reed, stick and mud houses along side Panamericana North of San Pedro de Lloc San Pedro de Lloc
2010.2.2.5.107.28 Indigenous reed, stick and mud houses along side Panamericana North of San Pedro de Lloc San Pedro de Lloc
Peru
Large building at right is the 'caliwei' or temple. The smaller houses are god-h
40-88-20/76388.1.31 Large building at right is the 'caliwei' or temple. The smaller houses are god-h
Jalisco
Wall painting fragment; mud plaster.
980-25-60/13532 Wall painting fragment; mud plaster.
Fresco
Raw Material
Asia