Mortar

Museum number:
2-33922
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.1632
Description:
Rawhide mortar for grinding choke cherries. Hide is shaped by drying it in a hole in the sand.
Donor:
American Indian Film Project
Collection place:
Mission, Todd County, South Dakota
Verbatim coll. place:
South Dakota; Todd; Mission
Culture or time period:
Brule
Collector:
American Indian Film Project
Collection date:
1962
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Ground stone and Mortars (grinding tools)
Accession date:
1962
Context of use:
Obtained from Mrs. Nancy White Horse, a Brule Sioux, who was using it for the grinding of chokecherries. This mortar is the only one of the typical old fashioned rawhide mortar that the collector was able to secure." Stone placed in center of mortar.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
diameter 73 centimeters
Comment:
References: Morrow, Mabel. Indian Rawhide. Norman, Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1975. (pps. 220-21).
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 Mortar, accession number 2-33922, described as Rawhide mortar for grinding choke cherries. Hide is shaped by drying it in a hole in the sand.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mortar, accession number 2-33922, described as Rawhide mortar for grinding choke cherries. Hide is shaped by drying it in a hole in the sand.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mortar, accession number 2-33922, described as Rawhide mortar for grinding choke cherries. Hide is shaped by drying it in a hole in the sand.

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