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Ivory hair pricker - splayed ends have incised and blackened design
Ivory hair pricker - splayed ends have incised and blackened design
Object Number 40-24-50/5039
Display Title Ivory hair pricker - splayed ends have incised and blackened design
Descriptions
Object Description Ivory hair pricker - splayed ends have incised and blackened design in dots and circles
Inventory Description Pin, flattened triangular end with circle and dot incised pattern, pointed end
Classification
  • Pin
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Zande
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
Additional Geographic Terms Anglo-Egyptian Sudan: Tambura
Materials Ivory, Pigment, Bone?
Dimensions Overall: 12 x 1.8 x 0.4 cm (4 3/4 x 11/16 x 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 40-24-50/5039

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