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Wooden pipe cleaner or tamper--porcupine quill wrapping
Wooden pipe cleaner or tamper--porcupine quill wrapping
Object Number 39-30-10/18208
Display Title Wooden pipe cleaner or tamper--porcupine quill wrapping
Descriptions
Inventory Description Pipe tamper, tapered wood with wrapped quill at one end, tinkler tassles
Classification
  • Mechanical
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Sioux
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
Materials Wood, Porcupine quill, Metal tinkler
Dimensions Overall: 21.2 x 2 x 0.5 cm (8 3/8 x 13/16 x 3/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 39-30-10/18208
Provenance
Collector Mr. Henry M. Wheelwright (1901)
Intermediary Mrs. Henry M. Wheelwright (? - ?)
Donor Mrs. Ruth E. Wheelwright (? - 1939)

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