Pestle

Museum number:
1-4307
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Alternate number:
1554 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.135, Acc.136, Acc.137, and Acc.138
Description:
Made of granite; both ends rounded.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Southwestern United States
Verbatim coll. place:
Southwest
Culture or time period:
Mohave
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1904
Materials:
Granite (rock)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Ground stone and Pestles
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1904
Context of use:
To be used with #1553 (mortar).
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
length 43.6 centimeters and 30 centimeters
Comment:
References: Photo of similar pestle in Southwest Museum Leaflet #22, 1948.
Loans:
S1964-1965 #34a: University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia) (November 16, 1964–March 25, 1966) and S1964-1965 #72: Heard Museum (March 25, 1965–September 24, 1965)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pestle, accession number 1-4307, described as Made of granite; both ends rounded.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Pestle, accession number 1-4307, described as Made of granite; both ends rounded.

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