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Carter No.: 596f

Handlist description: Short wooden stick

Card/Transcription No.: 596fg


596, F, G. TWO WOODEN STICKS

A short wooden stick; L. 77.5 cents, diam. 1.6 cents; covered with a dark red-brown bark(resembling cherry); lower end capped with light yellowish bark (? birch); handle or rather upper end decorated with bark ornamentation; top of umbelliferous form.

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596, G. A short wooden stick; L.89.0; diam. 1.75 cents; made of a smoother dark red-brown wood, the handle decorated with bark ornament, the knob also of bark (? birch) & of umbelliferous form; the decoration is picked out with gold.

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