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Object Number 991-12-60/14920D
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 Box, lid, for 991-12-60/14920A and B, cardboard with blue floral print, broken
Classification
  • Box
Department Ethnographic
Date late 19th century - early 20th century
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia / Japan
Dimensions Overall: 17.8 x 1.7 x 0.8 cm (7 x 11/16 x 5/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 991-12-60/14920D
Provenance
Collector Sarah Pike Conger (1898-1905)
Donor Sarah Conger Buchan Jewell

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