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Object Number 99-12-60/53303
Display Title Tobacco stopper
Descriptions
Inventory Description Ornament, animal bone and claw with flat gold top
Classification
  • Ornament
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1817
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia / India?
Materials Bone, Gold
Dimensions Overall: 4.5 x 1.3 x 1.3 cm (1 3/4 x 1/2 x 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53303
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance Boston Museum
Donor David P. Kimball
Donor L. Cushing Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton

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