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Object Number
87-10-50/40893
Display Title
Small carved ornaments
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Button, carved wood buttons, pyramidal heads withincised design
Classification
- Button
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Mozambique
Additional Geographic Terms
East Africa, central: Mongue; Inhambane
Materials
Wood, Vegetable fiber
Dimensions
Overall: 1.3 x 0.9 x 0.8 cm (1/2 x 3/8 x 5/16 in.)
Quantity
4
Label on object
87-10-50/40893
Provenance
Collector
E. H. Richards
(1886)
Donor
Donated by
Prof. J. H. Thayer
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