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Object Number
00-8-70/55372
Display Title
Beginning of a comb
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Comb, 3 blunt tines, dark fiber binding, one fragment
Classification
- Comb
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Tonga
/
<State>
/
Tongatapu island
Additional Geographic Terms
Tongatapu Group
Materials
Wood, Vegetable fiber
Dimensions
Overall: 23.5 x 0.6 x 0.3 cm (9 1/4 x 1/4 x 1/8 in.)
Quantity
2
Label on object
55372
Provenance
Collector
Alexander Agassiz
(1899-1900)
Collector
Dr. William McMichael Woodworth
(1899-1900)
Collector
U.S. Fish Commission Ship Albatross Expedition
(1899-1900)
Donor
Alexander Agassiz
(1900)
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