| Object Number | 2003-70-37 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Nigeria |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Bone |
| Technique | Carved | Incised |
| Description | Written communication. Bone writing stylus with point, probably where it is dipped in ink. Upper part has incised carvings but top is broken off. Resembles other stylus' with tops carved into shape of a spear. Bone writing styles used by the Hausa Natives of Northern Nigeria. |
| Length | 12.7 cm |
| Width | 0.6 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003 |
| Other Number | 1993.X.1252 - Other Number |
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