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Object Number
88-51-10/48037
Display Title
Parching sticks
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Sticks, stripped, tapered, soiled
Classification
- Tools
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Zuñi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
New Mexico
/
McKinley County
/
<City>
/
Zuni Pueblo
Materials
Wood
Dimensions
Overall: 76 x 0.8 x 1 cm (29 15/16 x 5/16 x 3/8 in.)
Quantity
5
Label on object
48037 & 6460 [crossed out]
Provenance
Collector
Col. James Stevenson
(1881)
Exchange participant
Smithsonian Institution
(1888)
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