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Object Number 99-12-70/53407
Display Title Staff with carved upper portion
Descriptions
Inventory Description Staff, carved wood, flattened point and carved blunt serrations at 1 end
Classification
  • Staff
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Samoa
Oceania / Tonga
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 277.7 x 2.4 x 2.5 cm (109 5/16 x 15/16 x 1 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53407
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance Boston Museum
Donor David P. Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton
Donor L. Cushing Kimball

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