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Support Board for a Backpack or Working Board for Beadwork

19th century

Wood with shell

66 × 30 × 2 cm (26 × 11 13/16 × 13/16 in.) base: 1 × 30.5 × 9 cm (3/8 × 12 × 3 9/16 in.)
Promised gift of Thomas Jaffe, B.A. 1971
ILE2012.30.289
Geography: 
Made in Mahakam River, Borneo, Indonesia
Status: 
On view
Period: 
19th century
Classification: 
Tools and Equipment
Provenance: 

Ex-collection: E. Delataille, Brussels

Bibliography: 

Jouke van der Werff and Jan B. Ave, Kalimantan, Mythe en Kunst (Delft, Netherlands: Indonesisch Ethnografisch Museum Delft, 1973), 173, no. 454, fig. 125.

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