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Object Number 99-12-70/53775
Display Title Fish skin rasp
Descriptions
Inventory Description Tool, wood wrapped with fish skin, bound with fiber, perforated handle, stained
Classification
  • Mechanical
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / France / French Polynesia / Windward Islands / Tahiti
Additional Geographic Terms Society Islands
Dimensions Overall: 34.2 x 5.2 x 2.7 cm (13 7/16 x 2 1/16 x 1 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53775
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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