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Object Number 99-12-50/53721
Display Title Cast brass or bronze buckle-like objects
Descriptions
Inventory Description Buckle, cast brass, open work, with applied spheres
Classification
  • Belt buckle
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Culture
  • Ashanti
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Ghana
Additional Geographic Terms Africa, Western
Materials Brass
Dimensions Overall: 1.6 x 3.3 x 3 cm (5/8 x 1 5/16 x 1 3/16 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 53721
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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