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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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