Carved wooden snuff mortar and pestle with ivory pestle attached
- Made:
- 1880-1920
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Carved wooden snuff mortar and pestle with ivory pestle attached, mortar in the form of a squatting figure, with pot shaped bowl supported on head, Congolese, 1880-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A22466
- Materials:
- pestle, wood and pestle, ivory
- Measurements:
-
mortar: height 139 mm
mortar, bowl: height 33 mm
mortar: length 54 mm
mortar: width 41 mm
mortar, bowl: diameter 36 mm
pestle: length 65 mm
pestle: diameter 13 mm
thong: length 95 mm
- type:
- snuff mortar
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)
