Wooden snuff mortar and pestle

Made:: 1831-1900 in Alaska

This image is released under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Licence

Buy this image as a print

License this image for commercial use at Science and Society Picture Library

Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Wooden snuff mortar and pestle, large round bowl with bulbous handle, truncheon shaped pestle attached, Inuit peoples (orginally recorded as 'Eskimo'), Alaska, 1831-1900

Details

Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A16054

Materials:: wood, drift wood

type:: mortar and pestle

Cite this page

Rights

We encourage the use and reuse of our collection data.

Data in the title, made, maker and details fields are released under Creative Commons Zero . Descriptions and all other text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence

Using our data

Download

Download catalogue entry as json

Download manifest IIIF

Our records are constantly being enhanced and improved, but please note that we cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information shown on this website.

Wooden snuff mortar and pestle

Details

Related Objects

'Merman'

Ngetwa 3 herbal medicine

Glass necklace worn to prevent bronchitis, Chelsea, London, England, 1914

Glass necklace worn to prevent bronchitis, Greenwich, London, 1914

'Orris Root' amulet in plastic packet with paper label 'worn to find and hold love'

Amulet brooch in the shape of a black cat