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Object Number 2011.19.44
Display Title Gameboard, "Gebuke"
Descriptions
Object Description Wooden gameboard, one long rectangular piece of wood, 2 parallel lines of 10 circular indents, rectangular outline around 20 circles, 2 rectangular supports as legs, rectangle with deep rectangular indent protrudes from one side of the board, board on which game "Gebuke" is played
Inventory Description Game board, carved wood, rectangular, twenty carved circular indentations, two rectangular supports, rectangular indentation on one end
Classification
  • Game
Department Ethnographic
Date c. 1979 or earlier
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Ethiopia
Materials Wood
Dimensions Other: 7 x 89.1 x 22.3 cm (2 3/4 x 35 1/16 x 8 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2011.19.44
Credit Line Gift of André J. Navez, Harvard '55
Provenance
Collector André J. Navez (-7/19/2011)
Donor Donated by André J. Navez (-7/19/2011)

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