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Object Number 88-51-10/49725.1
Display Title Whipping top.
Descriptions
Inventory Description Top, carved wood, one end flat, other end conical, small burnt area
Classification
  • Toy
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hopi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Arizona / Navajo County / Hopi Reservation
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 7.4 x 3.1 x 3.3 cm (2 15/16 x 1 1/4 x 1 5/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 49725/ [crossed out] 41918
Provenance
Collector Col. James Stevenson (1878)
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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