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Object Number 67-10-70/402
Display Title Cordage
Descriptions
Inventory Description Rope, dried plant fiber, plaited, looped multiple times to create a bundle, wrapped at center, tapers at ends, twisted cordage at ends
Classification
  • Ropes
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hawaiian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / United States / Hawaii
Materials Plant fiber
Dimensions Overall: 50.6 × 16 × 8.9 cm (19 15/16 × 6 5/16 × 3 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1
Provenance
Donor Massachusetts Historical Society (1867)

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