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Object Number 99-12-70/53784
Display Title Bunch of emu feathers
Descriptions
Inventory Description Bundle of black plumes wrapped with vegetable fiber, loop at end
Classification
  • Ornament
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Papua New Guinea
Dimensions Overall: 33 x 14 x 1.5 cm (13 x 5 1/2 x 9/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53784 / poison
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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