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Object Number
14-29-70/85719
Display Title
Fly brush
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Whisk, carved wood handle, knotted fiber tassle
Classification
- Whisk
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Fiji
Materials
Wood, Vegetable fiber
Dimensions
Overall: 68.5 x 13.5 x 6 cm (26 15/16 x 5 5/16 x 2 3/8 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
85719/ Fiji Islands/ 1#76/ Fly-whisk
Provenance
Collector
Dr. William McMichael Woodworth
Donor
Museum of Comparative Zoology
(1914)
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