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Cast brass or bronze crab's claws
Cast brass or bronze crab's claws
Object Number 99-12-50/53730
Display Title Cast brass or bronze crab's claws
Descriptions
Inventory Description Casts, brass casts of crab claws, roughly executed
Classification
  • Casting
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Culture
  • Ashanti
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Ghana
Additional Geographic Terms Africa, Western
Materials Brass
Dimensions Overall: 3.8 x 2.9 x 1.4 cm (1 1/2 x 1 1/8 x 9/16 in.)
Quantity 3
Label on object 99-12-50/53730
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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