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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
- Measurements:
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mortar: height 95 mm
mortar: length 215 mm
mortar, bowl: diameter 115 mm
pestle: length 214 mm
pestle (maximum): diameter 32 mm