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Bill hook
Object Number 99-12-50/53780
Display Title Bill hook
Descriptions
Inventory Description Billhook, iron blade, hooked at tip, long cylindrical wood handle
Classification
  • Billhook
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
Materials Iron, Wood
Dimensions Overall: 64.5 x 5.7 x 3.6 cm (25 3/8 x 2 1/4 x 1 7/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53780
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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