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Wooden knife sheath
Object Number 67-10-00/381
Display Title Wooden knife sheath
Descriptions
Inventory Description Sheath, carved wood, fiber band wrap, ridged, knobbed end
Classification
  • Sheath
Department Ethnographic
Materials Wood, Vegetable fiber
Dimensions Overall: 27.5 x 3.3 x 2.4 cm (10 13/16 x 1 5/16 x 15/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 381
Provenance
Donor Donated by Massachusetts Historical Society (1867)

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