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Object Number
88-51-10/48038
Display Title
Wooden tongs
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Tongs, carved wood, single pieces split laterally
Classification
- Food processing
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Zuñi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
New Mexico
/
McKinley County
/
<City>
/
Zuni Pueblo
Materials
Wood
Dimensions
Overall: 35.8 x 3.6 x 2.3 cm (14 1/8 x 1 7/16 x 7/8 in.)
Quantity
2
Label on object
48038/ [crossed out] 69384/ [crossed out] 128590
Provenance
Collector
Col. James Stevenson
(1881)
Exchange participant
Smithsonian Institution
(1888)
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