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Object Number 99-15-70/53936
Display Title Game consisting of long mat and 10 cocoanut discs. owned by a village
Descriptions
Inventory Description Mat, thin, rectangular, woven fiber, six coconut shell discs, punctured designs, one secured with three fiber stitches
Classification
  • Game
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Samoa
Dimensions Overall: 188 x 22 cm (74 x 8 11/16 in.)
Quantity 7
Label on object 53936
Provenance
Collector Dr. William McMichael Woodworth

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Game consisting of long mat and 10 cocoanut discs. Owned by a village
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