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Parching sticks
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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