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Knife
Object Number 99-12-50/53230
Display Title Knife
Descriptions
Inventory Description Dagger, carved wooden handle with curved, leaf-shaped metal blade.
Classification
  • Dagger
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
Materials Metal, Wood
Dimensions Overall: 32 x 5.3 x 2.5 cm (12 5/8 x 2 1/16 x 1 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 99-12-50/53230
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance Boston Museum
Donor David P. Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton
Donor L. Cushing Kimball

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