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Fork
Object Number 99-12-50/53206
Display Title Fork
Descriptions
Inventory Description Fork, carved wood, 2 tines, cylindrical handle, tapering ended midsection
Classification
  • Fork
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 21.2 x 2.6 x 1.9 cm (8 3/8 x 1 x 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 99-12-50/53206
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Owner Mr. Etting (01/01/1827)
Owner David Kimball (1873)
Collector Mrs. Elizabeth Brown (01/01/1813)
Donor David Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton
Donor L. Cushing Kimball

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