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Object Number 01-4-70/55995
Display Title Bone implement
Descriptions
Inventory Description Unclassified tool, woked bone, blunted ends, one perforated, mended, losses
Classification
  • Tools
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Maori
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / New Zealand
Materials Bone
Dimensions Overall: 40.7 x 2.1 x 1.6 cm (16 x 13/16 x 5/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 55995
Provenance
Collector Edward Leece (1890)
Donor Dr. George W. Nash (1901)

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