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Sheath for stone knife
Object Number 36-122-70/569.2
Display Title Sheath for stone knife
Descriptions
Inventory Description Sheath, bundled fiber, wrapped with twisted fiber cordage
Classification
  • Sheath
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Warramunga?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Australia / Northern Territory / <County> / Tennant Creek
Additional Geographic Terms North
Materials Fiber Fiber cord
Dimensions Overall: 23 × 5.7 × 1.8 cm (9 1/16 × 2 1/4 × 11/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 36-122-70/569.1
Provenance
Intermediary Dr. Hallam L. Movius, Jr.
Previous owner Previously owned by Robert Pulleine
Seller Estate of Dr. Robert Pulleine (11/19/1936)

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