Chocolate stirrer

Museum number:
3-23092
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21030023092
Alternate number:
19 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.2248
Description:
Chocolate beater; handle and head carved from single piece of wood; round bottomed bowl with rectangular rim with rounded corners; L 24.2 cm; bowl 5.3 X 6.2 cm. See field notes in acc. env.
Donor:
Susan Weikel Palmer and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Lacanjá, Chiapas, Mexico
Verbatim coll. place:
Mexico; Chiapas; Lacanjá; Lacandon Indians
Culture or time period:
Lacandon
Collector:
Susan Weikel Palmer
Collection date:
October 11, 1966
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1967
Context of use:
Used mainly by women to beat chocolate
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Dimensions:
length 24.2 centimeters
Comment:
H-17-2
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Chocolate stirrer, accession number 3-23092, described as Chocolate beater; handle and head carved from single piece of wood; round bottomed bowl with rectangular rim with rounded corners; L 24.2 cm; bowl 5.3 X 6.2 cm. See field notes in acc. env.

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