- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Elephant ivory spatula [SM (Verve) 10/2/2016]
- Geographical reference
- Cape Province Plettenberg Bay Robberg Peninsula Nelson Bay cave
- Date / Period
- Date made: After 1350 BC Archaeological period: Later Stone Age
- Date collected
- 1964 - 1965
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1989
- Materials and processes
- Material Animal Ivory Tooth, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Length: max 141 mm, Width: max 30 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1979.10.80
- Research and responses
Elephant ivory spatula Unstratified [LM]
- Associated publications
- Inskeep, R.R. (1987) Nelson Bay Cave, Cape Province, South Africa: the Holocene Levels (Oxford). [AS 29/11/2010]
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