Wooden knife and fork

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Object Number 87-10-50/40889

Display Title Wooden knife and fork

Descriptions

Inventory Description Carved wood knife, resembles Euro. butter knife, blunt, end is rounded

Classification

Knife

Department Ethnographic

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Africa / Mozambique

Additional Geographic Terms East Africa, central: Mongue; Inhambane

Materials Wood

Dimensions Overall: 23.8 x 2.7 x 1 cm (9 3/8 x 1 1/16 x 3/8 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 87-10-50/40889

Provenance

Collector E. H. Richards (1886)

Donor Donated by Prof. J. H. Thayer

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