Mortar and pestle exhibited in East African Sudan Court

Made:: 1890-1925 in Sudan

Turned wood mortar and pestle exhibited in East African Sudan Court at British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, Sudanese, 1890-1925

Details

Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A48501

Materials:: wood

Measurements:: mortar: height 201 mm
mortar: diameter 154 mm
pestle: length 264 mm
max. pestle: diameter 74 mm

type:: mortars and pestles

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