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Object Number 51-60-50/8841
Display Title Abrading stone (limestone)
Descriptions
Inventory Description Abrading stone, amorphous, tapered at tone end, one side flattened
Classification
  • Tools
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Bushmen
  • San
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
Additional Geographic Terms Epata, 57 mi. east of; Eiseb, along
Materials Stone
Dimensions Overall: 8.1 x 2.6 x 2.7 cm (3 3/16 x 1 x 1 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 51-60-50/8841; A7
Provenance
Expedition Peabody Museum Expedition (Summer 1951)

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