Small carved wooden mortar with handle on base
- Made:
- 1880-1920
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Small carved wooden mortar with handle on base, decorated with incised triangles, used in conjunction with wooden pestle, supposedly used by cannibals for grinding time possibly from the Congo, African, 1880-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A52747
- Materials:
- wood
- type:
- mortarspestles
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)
