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Object Number 15-36-10/86435
Display Title Paint sticks.
Descriptions
Inventory Description Unclassified, carved wood, cylindrical, all have one rounded, flat end and a tapered end.
Classification
  • Tools
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1915
Culture
  • Thompson
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / British Columbia
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 15.3 x 0.7 x 0.7 cm (6 x 1/4 x 1/4 in.)
Quantity 3
Label on object 86435
Credit Line Museum Purchase, Huntington Frothingham Wolcott Fund, 1915
Provenance
Seller James A. Teit (?)
Collector James A. Teit

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