Mortar

Museum number:
1-4306
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010004306
Alternate number:
1553 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.135, Acc.136, Acc.137, and Acc.138
Description:
Mortar: carved of cottonwood; many cracks.
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:
Cottonwood (wood)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Mortars (grinding tools)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
diameter 32.5 centimeters and height 44 centimeters
Comment:
References: Photo of similar mortar in Southwest Leaflet #22, 1948 Denver Museum.
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 1-4306, described as Mortar: carved of cottonwood; many cracks.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mortar, accession number 1-4306, described as Mortar: carved of cottonwood; many cracks.

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