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Title	Neck rest
Date	1954-1989
Material Type	Headrests
Description	Wooden neckrest/headrest with vine cord attached to two holes in the vertical piece of the object; origin Turkana people of Kenya.
Dimensions	Length: 25 cm, Width: 7.5 cm, Height: 18 cm.
Subject	Headrests -- Africa Wood-carving -- Africa, East Turkana (African people) -- Material culture Art, Kenyan Kenya -- Civilization -- 20th century
Geographic Region	Africa Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, East Kenya
Collector	Towles, Joseph A. Turnbull, Colin M.
Collection in Repository	Joseph A. Towles Artifact Collection
Call Number	1989.001.098e
Holding Institution	Avery Research Center at the College of Charleston
Digital Collection	Avery Research Center Artifact Collection
Rights	Digital image copyright 2009, The College of Charleston Libraries. All rights reserved. For more information contact The College of Charleston Library, Charleston, SC 29424.
Media Type	Objects

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