printed dance card with pencil on attached length of string, double sided with music program and hand written names on reverse […]
circular leather tags, or ‘tokens’, stamped with numbers, attached to short lengths of string, knotted together […]
rectangular leather ‘tokens’ stamped with number 45, attached to short lengths of string, knotted together […]
bone, tooth, wood and twine […]
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