Small carved wooden mortar with handle on base

Made:
1880-1920
Small carved wooden mortar with handle on base

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Small carved wooden mortar with handle on base
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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)