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Object Number 99-12-50/53729
Display Title Cast brass or bronze button
Descriptions
Inventory Description Button, cast brass, rectangular, molded design, looped back
Classification
  • Button
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Culture
  • Ashanti
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Ghana
Additional Geographic Terms Africa, Western
Materials Brass
Dimensions Overall: 1.7 x 1.3 x 1.1 cm (11/16 x 1/2 x 7/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 99-12-50/53729
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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