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Small basketry "medicine" box with folding lid, used also to hold lime. +
Small basketry "medicine" box with folding lid, used also to hold lime. +
Object Number 39-17-70/1393
Display Title Small basketry "medicine" box with folding lid, used also to hold lime. +
Descriptions
Inventory Description Box, finely woven fiber and leaf, fringed base, 4 flap lid, seeds, beads, sticks
Classification
  • Box
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Besarese
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Dutch New Guinea / <State> / Kamwa
Materials Vegetable fiber, Leaf, Seed, Wood, Resin, Glass, Paper, Pigment
Dimensions Overall: 14 x 11 x 4.6 cm (5 1/2 x 4 5/16 x 1 13/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 39-17-70/1393
Provenance
Collector Charis Denison Crockett (1938)

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