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Metal tool, awl, with wooden handle
Metal tool, awl, with wooden handle
Object Number 2020.3.55
Display Title Metal tool, awl, with wooden handle
Descriptions
Inventory Description Tool, awl, carved wooden handle, elongated metal point inserted
Classification
  • Awl
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hadza
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Tanzania
Materials Wood Metal
Dimensions Overall: 20 × 1.3 × 1.5 cm (7 7/8 × 1/2 × 9/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2020.3.55
Credit Line Gift of Frank Marlowe, Anthropologist, and the Hadza people of Tanzania

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