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Object Number
39-17-70/1239
Display Title
Bamboo tube containing 2 cassowary bone daggers swathed in bark cloth +
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Cylindrical bamboo tube, tube open at one end, tube contains cloth bundle, two thin and tapered bone points, one bone decorated with two rows of circular indentations
Classification
- Container
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Luelala Moraid
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Dutch New Guinea
/
<State>
/
<County>
/
<City>
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Sainke Doek
Additional Geographic Terms
Luelala Moraid
Materials
Bamboo , Bone , Cloth
Dimensions
Overall (measurement of bamboo tube): 21.4 × 2.8 × 2.5 cm (8 7/16 × 1 1/8 × 1 in.)
Quantity
3
Label on object
39-17-70/1239
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