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Object Number 04-19-70/63302
Display Title Instrument for piercing penis
Descriptions
Inventory Description Tool, two carved wood pieces with metal bar attached, separate metal perforator
Classification
  • Tools
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Kayan?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Malaysia / Borneo
Dimensions Overall: 18.6 x 1.4 x 1.4 cm (7 5/16 x 9/16 x 9/16 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object 63302
Provenance
Intermediary Dr. William H. Furness, III (1904)
Donor Donated by Free Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania (1904)

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