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Tongs
Object Number 88-51-10/48064
Display Title Tongs
Descriptions
Inventory Description Tongs, carved wood, split lengthwise
Classification
  • Food processing
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hopi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Arizona
Additional Geographic Terms Hopi pueblos
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 26.2 x 2.4 x 2.3 cm (10 5/16 x 15/16 x 7/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 48064/ [crossed out] 68800/ Moqui
Provenance
Collector Col. James Stevenson (1881)
Donor Smithsonian Institution (1888)

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