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Object Number
39-17-70/1171
Display Title
Wooden "chopsticks" used as eating utensils ("dem")
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Sticks, pointed ends, grooved and bound with ring of woven fiber
Classification
- Food processing
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Madik
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
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Dutch New Guinea
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Sanke Doek
Materials
Wood, Vegetable fiber
Dimensions
Overall: 41.6 x 1.4 x 0.8 cm (16 3/8 x 9/16 x 5/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
39-17-70/1171
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