Four-pronged wooden fork

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Object Number 56-52-60/10629

Display Title Four-pronged wooden fork

Descriptions

Object Description Four-pronged wooden fork

Inventory Description Fork, carved wood, eliptical handle, four prongs, incised feature at middle

Classification

Fork

Department Ethnographic

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Oceania / Fiji?
Asia / Japan / Okinawa

Materials Wood

Dimensions Overall: 28.1 x 3.3 x 2.4 cm (11 1/16 x 1 5/16 x 15/16 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 56-52-60/10629

Provenance

Collector Harold Jefferson Coolidge Jr.

Donor Dr. George Cheever Shattuck (1956)

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