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Clothes Beater
Clothes Beater
Clothes Beater
Museum of International Folk Art
DepartmentLatin America

Clothes Beater

NameClothes Beater
Place madeSuriname, South America
Mediumwood
Dimensionsoverall: 57.6 CM L
Object numberA.1972.30.2
DescriptionPaddle with surface carving. Interlocking gradins (similar to #1) carved at top, criss-cross geometric designs and symbolic "notes" carved at bottom. Thicker bottom tapers up to top.
Fan (for fanning a fire, or a fly whisk)
Artist not recorded
Mid-20th century
Tattoo needle
Early 20th Century
Uluuraq or uluaq
Artist not recorded
late 19th century to early 20th century (ca. 1880-1910)
Curing Set (Cuadrilla)
Darío Soteno Léon
1997
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