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Object Number
33-56-20/2262
Display Title
Medicine wand or stick to cure stomach troubles
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Stick, carved with human figure on top, wearing indigenous cap, with lizard on t
Classification
- Staff
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Chocó
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America
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Panama
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Darien
/
<County>
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<City>
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House of the medicine man, Fidel Goinora
Additional Geographic Terms
Rio Sambu; Rio Benado, near the mouth of; Rio Sambu, tributary of
Materials
Wood
Dimensions
Overall: 54.7 x 2.9 x 2.7 cm (21 9/16 x 1 1/8 x 1 1/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
33-56-20/2262
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