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Object Number 88-51-10/50690
Display Title Pemmican maul
Descriptions
Object Description Pemmican maul
Inventory Description Maul, leather covered rock head, short handle, looped end
Classification
  • Food processing
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Sioux
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States
Additional Geographic Terms Dakota
Dimensions Overall: 34 x 10.2 x 5.3 cm (13 3/8 x 4 x 2 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 50690, 73835 (crossed out), 76,835 (crossed out) / Sioux, DAK. / GOV. R. W. Turn
Provenance
Provenance Smithsonian Institution (1888)
Collector Gov. R. W. Furness (1884)

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