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Object Number 99-12-70/53538
Display Title Comb
Descriptions
Inventory Description Comb, sharpened wood tines, dark fiber band one end
Classification
  • Comb
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Tonga?
Dimensions Overall: 13.9 x 6.3 x 0.3 cm (5 1/2 x 2 1/2 x 1/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53538
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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