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Object Number
991-12-60/14920B
Display Title
Pair of Decorated Bone Chopsticks in a Blue Cardboard/Paper Box
Descriptions
Indigenous Term
bone chopsticks - gu kuai
Object Description
Pair of bone chopsticks (a-b) in a cardboard/paper box with blue and white flowers. Chopsticks are held together with blue paper. Chopsticks have multicolored painted decoration on one face (flowers and flag). <transliteration> (Chinese name). Chopsticks both: 17 cm. (l) x 1.3 cm. (w) x .5 cm. (?); box (closed): 17.7 cm. (l) x 1.9 cm. (w) x 1 cm. (d).
Inventory Description
Chopstick, bone, banded to 14920A, painted design of flag image
Classification
- Chopstick
Department
Ethnographic
Date
late 19th century - early 20th century
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia
/
Japan
Materials
Bone, Paper, Pigment, Paint
Dimensions
Overall: 17.1 x 0.6 x 0.5 cm (6 3/4 x 1/4 x 3/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
991-12-60/14920B
Provenance
Collector
Sarah Pike Conger
(1898-1905)
Donor
Sarah Conger Buchan Jewell
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