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Digging sticks
Object Number 2004.29.4599
Display Title Digging sticks
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: "Navajo. Kayenta area. Say-Odd-Ne-Chee. Kidder and Guernsey 1914. Digging sticks. (both average 1 1/4" diam.) Hill section. / [verso] Gift of Lucy Kluckhohn, Sept 1964."
Keywords
  • Agriculture
  • Ethnographic
Subject
  • digging stick
Department Photographic
Date 1914
Culture
  • Navajo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Arizona
Additional Geographic Terms Kayenta
Materials Print, black and white adhered to Paperboard
Dimensions Overall: 5.08 x 17.78 cm (2 x 7 in.)

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