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Brush for cleaning baskets, made from soap root
Brush for cleaning baskets, made from soap root
Object Number 05-7-10/64480
Display Title Brush for cleaning baskets, made from soap root
Descriptions
Inventory Description Brush, flaring vegetable fiber wrapped in resin and tapered at one end.
Classification
  • Brush
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • California
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / California / Kern County
Materials Vegetable fiber, Resin
Dimensions Overall: 15.1 x 11.6 x 3 cm (5 15/16 x 4 9/16 x 1 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 64480
Provenance
Dealer Grace A. Nicholson (?)
Donor Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow (1905)

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