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Wooden box with cover
Object Number 99-12-70/53776
Display Title Wooden box with cover
Descriptions
Inventory Description Box, carved wood, rectangular, base and lid, angled base, pigment? or stain? splattered throughout surface
Classification
  • Box
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Federated States of Micronesia / <State> / Truk Island
Additional Geographic Terms Caroline Islands
Materials Wood , Pigment? , Stain?
Dimensions Overall: 28 × 12 × 7.5 cm (11 × 4 3/4 × 2 15/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53776
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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