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Object Number 99-12-70/53529
Display Title Poison sticks (?)
Descriptions
Inventory Description Wood sticks with ovate resin ball at 1 end
Classification
  • Tools
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
Materials Wood, Resin
Dimensions Overall: 78.5 x 2.1 x 2 cm (30 7/8 x 13/16 x 13/16 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 99-12-70/53529
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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