- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Cattle scapula used as hoe. The bone is flat flares. On one side the flared section of bone has been scraped to an even flat surface. [AB [OPS Move] 13/1/2017]
- Cultural groups
- Nyishi
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1967
- Date collected
- By 1967
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1967
- Materials and processes
- Material Cattle Bone Animal, Process Scraped Carved
- Dimensions
- Length: max 317 mm, Width: max 167 mm, Depth: max 44 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1967.18.29
- Research and responses
According to the Encyclopedia Britannica Online, the Dafla are a tribal people of eastern Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh, a mountainous state in northeastern India. Dafla is also the name of hills in the region. Assam is bounded to the north by Arunachal Pradesh, and thus both locations have tentatively been suggested as provenances here. [CW 25/10/2000]
Search terms: Tool, Agriculture and Horticulture, Animalia, Hoe, Agricultural Tool, Animal Part
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