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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
Provenance
Collector
Frank W. Marlowe
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