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Sheath for stone knife
Object Number 36-122-70/570.2
Display Title Sheath for stone knife
Descriptions
Inventory Description Sheath, fiber bundle, wrapped with twisted fiber cordage, white pigment
Classification
  • Sheath
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Australia / Northern Territory / <County> / Tennant Creek?
Additional Geographic Terms North
Materials Pigment Fiber
Dimensions Overall: 19.5 × 3.8 × 3.2 cm (7 11/16 × 1 1/2 × 1 1/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 36-122-70/570.2
Provenance
Previous owner Previously owned by Robert Pulleine
Intermediary Dr. Hallam L. Movius, Jr.
Previous owner Previously owned by F. J. Gillen
Previous owner Previously owned by Sir Baldwin Spencer
Seller Estate of Dr. Robert Pulleine (11/19/1936)

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