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Baren (tool used to rub the reverse of a woodblock print to in order to transfer the pigment)
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Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Dr. Ernest G. Stillman Class of 1907
Title: Baren (tool used to rub the reverse of a woodblock print to in order to transfer the pigment)
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