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Sextants

Dimensions7.62 × 33.02 × 41.28 cm (3 × 13 × 16 1/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of Cummings E. Davis (1886)
Object numberA2069
DescriptionSextant. Made of wood, painted black, and metal fixtures. Measuring strip made out of horn(?) or bone(?) (detached). Triangular in shape, with one rectangular mirror still affixed to corner. No case. See A2046.