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Object Number 10-21-10/76469
Display Title Bone perforator
Descriptions
Inventory Description Awl, carved bone, tapered to point at one end, curved and slightly concave
Classification
  • Awl
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Yokut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / California
Materials Bone
Dimensions Overall: 12.9 x 0.9 x 0.5 cm (5 1/16 x 3/8 x 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 76469
Provenance
Collector Grace A. Nicholson (1910 - 1910)
Collector Mr. Carroll S. Hartman (1910 - 1910)
Donor Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow (1910 - 1910)

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