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Object Number
99-12-00/53409
Display Title
Staff or spear
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Paddle, carved wood, long thin tapered blade, pointed, cylindrical handle
Classification
- Paddle
Department
Ethnographic
Date
before 1899
Materials
Wood
Dimensions
Overall: 293.5 x 4.2 x 2.6 cm (115 9/16 x 1 5/8 x 1 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
99-12-Z/53409
Credit Line
Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance
Boston Museum
Donor
David P. Kimball
Donor
Augusta K. Horton
Donor
L. Cushing Kimball
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