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Dried toucan bird beak, with some feathers intact
Dried toucan bird beak, with some feathers intact
Object Number 973-24-70/5382A
Display Title Dried toucan bird beak, with some feathers intact
Descriptions
Inventory Description Bird skull and beak, toucan?, black feathers
Classification
  • Bone
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Papua New Guinea
Materials Bird bone, Bird beak, Feather
Dimensions Overall: 21 x 11.6 x 5.2 cm (8 1/4 x 4 9/16 x 2 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object (973-24-70/7382a); 973-24-70/5382A
Provenance
Donor Donated by Estate of Eliot Elisofon

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