Elephant's tail switch

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Object Number 99-12-50/53245

Display Title Elephant's tail switch

Descriptions

Inventory Description Fly switch, lower portion of elephant tail, coarse, stiff hairs

Classification

Fly whisk

Department Ethnographic

Date before 1899

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Africa

Materials Elephant tail

Dimensions Overall: 60.1 x 2.6 x 2.2 cm (23 11/16 x 1 x 7/8 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 53245

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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