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Museum number:

9-17231

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Accession number:

Acc.3934

Object count:

1

Description:

Wrist protector. Straw; tubular; flared; diagonally plaited with twine weave at edges; double layered at wrist end. Wrist protector used when emptying fish trap. Protector from small poisonous snakes and biting fish, etc. May be pair with 9-17232. CHECK

Donor:

Beth Harnex MacLafferty Blake

Collection place:

Cambodia

Verbatim coll. place:

Cambodia

Culture or time period:

Cambodian

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Baskets (containers) and Plaited weaving

Function:

1.1 Hunting and Fishing

Accession date:

April 1, 1984

Department:

Asia (except western Russia)

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