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Object Number 99-12-70/53255
Display Title Knife and scabbard
Descriptions
Inventory Description Knife, iron blade, carved horn grip, curved, carved wood sheath, mended
Classification
  • Knife
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Malaysia / <State> / <County> / Acluin?
Additional Geographic Terms Malay Archipelago
Dimensions Overall: 48.3 x 11.8 x 2.9 cm (19 x 4 5/8 x 1 1/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53255
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance Boston Museum
Donor David P. Kimball
Donor L. Cushing Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton

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