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Light colored bamboo shaft attaches to the straw bristles of a wound wire joint. The bristles held with three horizontal strings.
firesets
bamboo (material)
straw (plant material)
string (fiber product)
wire
bamboo (material)
Bamboo
Straw
Wire
String
BROOM, FIREPLACE
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Unknown
37.5 x 5.125 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.1551
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