Calendar

Object Details

Donor Name

Neville Chittick

From card: "Rectangular wood base with inlaid circles of ivory dots. A wire is strung between columns fixed to the ends. On the wire are strung 30 small ivory pegs separated by two black ones into 3 "decades." Called besabu ya mwezi."

Record Last Modified

30 Apr 2018

Specimen Count

1

Accession Date

29 Aug 1968

Accession Number

272775

USNM Number

E409941-0

Object Type

Calendar

Place

Kenya, Africa

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Anthropology

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

Topic

Ethnology

Record ID

nmnhanthropology_8440236

Metadata Usage (text)

CC0

GUID (Link to Original Record)

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3f515bb2d-67e8-4ebf-8383-b961706f17a2