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Object Number
00-8-70/55639
Display Title
Dancing stick
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Carved stick, cylindrical, tapered to point one end, covered with pink-tinted conical shells attached with fiber cord
Classification
- Carving
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Kiribati
/
Ocean Island (Banaba)
Materials
Wood , Shell , Fiber
Dimensions
Overall: 72.2 × 5.5 × 5.3 cm (28 7/16 × 2 3/16 × 2 1/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
55639
Provenance
Collector
Alexander Agassiz
(01/1900)
Collector
Dr. William McMichael Woodworth
(01/1900)
Donor
Donated by
Alexander Agassiz
(1900)
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