Mortar and pestle, used in snuff manufacture, with small leather skin pouch and pick, wood, mortar with ivory rim, Inuit peoples (originally recorded as 'Eskimo'), Canadian, 1880-1930
Mortar and pestle, used in snuff manufacture, with small leather skin pouch and pick, wood, mortar with ivory rim, Inuit (Eskimo), Canadian, 1880-1930
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A16161
- Materials:
- mortar, wood, mortar, ivory, pestle, wood, pouch, seal and pick, brass, plated
- Measurements:
-
mortar: diameter 93 mm
mortar with handle: length 225 mm
mortar: height 73 mm
pestle: length 260 mm
maximum, pestle: diameter 34 mm
pouch: length 160 mm
pick: length 118 mm
