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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> / Sainke Doek
Additional Geographic Terms Luelala Moraid
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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