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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
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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