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Object Number 24-48-60/D2331
Display Title Leather thimbles for sewing
Descriptions
Inventory Description Thimbles, sewn hide rings, wide in center, tapered at sewn ends
Classification
  • Textileworking
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Yakut
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia / Russia / Siberia
Materials Hide
Dimensions Overall: 2.5 x 2.6 x 2.1 cm (1 x 1 x 13/16 in.)
Quantity 3
Label on object D2331
Provenance
Owner Museum fur Tierkunde und Volkerkunde
Collector Frederick Alexander

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