Pestle
- Museum number:
- 2-5776
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020005776
- Alternate number:
- x-866 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.167
- Description:
- Wooden pestle.
- Donor:
- Alaska Commercial Company, Benjamin Bristol, and Older University Collections
- Collection place:
- Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska
- Culture or time period:
- Alaskan Eskimo
- Collector:
- unknown
- Collection date:
- 1898
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Ground stone and Pestles
- Function:
- 1.5 Household
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Context of use:
- Used with round-bottomed wood trays to crush berries, seal fat or livers of birds and fish with which pastry mixtures are made of. Used in making a treat known Agoutak or "Eskimo ice cream.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- height 13.7 centimeters
- Comment:
- Remarks: cf. Nelson Pl. XXXI and p. 73.
- Legacy documentation:
-