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Object Number 99-12-70/53278
Display Title Tortoise shell dish
Descriptions
Inventory Description Dish, worked tortoise shell, oval, notched lip, perforated, mended with fiber in
Classification
  • Dish
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Federated States of Micronesia
Additional Geographic Terms Caroline Islands
Dimensions Overall: 16 x 10.6 x 2.4 cm (6 5/16 x 4 3/16 x 15/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53278
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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