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Fetish: case knife covered with gum
Fetish: case knife covered with gum
Object Number 99-12-50/53233
Display Title Fetish: case knife covered with gum
Descriptions
Inventory Description Metal knife, rusted, sticking out of resinous organic clump, cowrie shells
Classification
  • Knife
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
Materials Organic, Metal, Shell, Hide, Gum
Dimensions Overall: 10.5 x 2.9 x 6 cm (4 1/8 x 1 1/8 x 2 3/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 99-12-50/53233 & 53233
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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