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Carved wooden staff/dagger?
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Object Number 2016.26.11
Display Title Carved wooden staff/dagger?
Descriptions
Object Description Wooden staff or dagger carved with two stacked figures
Inventory Description Staff, carved wood, tapered to flat point one end, carved standing human figures at handle end
Classification
  • Staff
  • Carving
Department Ethnographic
Date c. 1960s
Culture
  • Quechua
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
South America / Ecuador
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 3.5 × 47.5 × 1 cm (1 3/8 × 18 11/16 × 3/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2016.26.11
Credit Line Gift of Helen Arnold in Memory of her husband, Wynn Edmund Arnold
Provenance
Collector Wynn Edmund Arnold (1970-1973)
Donor Donated by Helen Arnold (12/21/2016)

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