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Object Number 33-76-60/310
Display Title Bone rosary - tibetan style
Descriptions
Inventory Description Necklace, strand of discoidal bone and round jade beads, stone/shell inlay.
Classification
  • Necklace
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia / Mongolia
Materials Bone
Dimensions Overall: 14.1 x 1.6 x 1.6 cm (5 9/16 x 5/8 x 5/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 33-76-60/310
Provenance
Collector Owen Lattimore (1929-1933)

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