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Dagger
Object Number 99-12-00/52883
Display Title Dagger
Descriptions
Inventory Description Knife blade with square wooded handle
Classification
  • Raw Material
  • Knife
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Materials Iron
Dimensions Overall: 34 x 4.3 x 1.6 cm (13 3/8 x 1 11/16 x 5/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 52883
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance Boston Museum
Donor David P. Kimball
Donor L. Cushing Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton

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