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Object Number 99-12-60/53304
Display Title Tobacco stopper
Descriptions
Inventory Description Ornament, animal bone and claw with flat gold top with ring
Classification
  • Ornament
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1817
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia / India?
Materials Gold, Bone
Dimensions Overall: 7.9 x 0.9 x 0.9 cm (3 1/8 x 3/8 x 3/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53304; I.P.
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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