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Sharpened stick; peg for climbing baobab tree
Sharpened stick; peg for climbing baobab tree
Object Number 2020.3.59.3
Display Title Sharpened stick; peg for climbing baobab tree
Descriptions
Inventory Description Stick, sharpened and bark removed at one end to flattened point
Classification
  • Tools
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hadza
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Tanzania
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 1.5 × 24 × 1.5 cm (9/16 × 9 7/16 × 9/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2020.3.59.3
Credit Line Gift of Frank Marlowe, Anthropologist, and the Hadza people of Tanzania

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Sharpened stick; peg for climbing baobab tree
2020.3.59.1 Sharpened stick; peg for climbing baobab tree
Tools
Tanzania
Sharpened stick; peg for climbing baobab tree
2020.3.59.2 Sharpened stick; peg for climbing baobab tree
Tools
Tanzania
[Baobab tree]: "Crooked /Qui" climbing a baobab tree using the pegs driven into the bark; the name "Mattenkloot" (German soldier Wilhelm Mattenkloot’s last name) is visible carved into the trunk (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.877 [Baobab tree]: "Crooked /Qui" climbing a baobab tree using the pegs driven into the bark; the name "Mattenkloot" (German soldier Wilhelm Mattenkloot’s last name) is visible carved into the trunk (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
"Crooked /Qui" climbing a baobab tree using the pegs driven into the bark; the name "Mattenkloot" (German soldier Wilhelm Mattenkloot’s last name) is visible carved into the trunk
2001.29.14550 "Crooked /Qui" climbing a baobab tree using the pegs driven into the bark; the name "Mattenkloot" (German soldier Wilhelm Mattenkloot’s last name) is visible carved into the trunk
Gautscha
Image Not Available for Hunting: "Crooked /Qui" climbing a baobab tree, showing pegs for climbing and names carved in the tree
2001.29.2163 Hunting: "Crooked /Qui" climbing a baobab tree, showing pegs for climbing and names carved in the tree
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Hunting: "Crooked /Qui" climbing a baobab tree, showing pegs for climbing and names carved in the tree
2001.29.2162 Hunting: "Crooked /Qui" climbing a baobab tree, showing pegs for climbing and names carved in the tree
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Image Not Available for Names on baobab trees: Pegs in the baobab tree used for climbing, close-up (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30366.2 Names on baobab trees: Pegs in the baobab tree used for climbing, close-up (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for Names on baobab trees: Pegs in the baobab tree used for climbing, close-up (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30365.1 Names on baobab trees: Pegs in the baobab tree used for climbing, close-up (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for Names on baobab trees: Pegs in the baobab tree used for climbing, close-up (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.30365 Names on baobab trees: Pegs in the baobab tree used for climbing, close-up (print is a cropped image)
Gautscha
Image Not Available for Hunting: "Crooked /Qui" starting to climb a baobab tree, showing the pegs for climbing and the names carved in the tree
2001.29.2164 Hunting: "Crooked /Qui" starting to climb a baobab tree, showing the pegs for climbing and the names carved in the tree
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Pegs in the baobab tree used for climbing, close-up
2001.29.14552 Pegs in the baobab tree used for climbing, close-up
Gautscha
Image Not Available for /Twikwe's possessions, including (top to bottom, left to right) a piece of wood hollowed in center used to trip iron traps, a small stick, a bundle of sharpened sticks used to peg down a hide to stretch it, a fire paddle, 2 sticks, a digging stick, a bow, arrow with a bone point shaped like a needle, and a quiver, with a ruler for measurement
2001.29.27259 /Twikwe's possessions, including (top to bottom, left to right) a piece of wood hollowed in center used to trip iron traps, a small stick, a bundle of sharpened sticks used to peg down a hide to stretch it, a fire paddle, 2 sticks, a digging stick, a bow, arrow with a bone point shaped like a needle, and a quiver, with a ruler for measurement
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