Wooden salt container (vagan - "salt container"; also the name of a mortar and pestle); lathe-turned beech wood; (a) bowl with incurved rim; 15.8 cm max. dia; (b) lid; 12.3 cm max. dia.
Donor:
Velimir Nikolov
Collection place:
Tetovo, Polog Region, Macedonia
Verbatim coll. place:
Yugoslavia; Macedonia; Tetovo
Culture or time period:
Macedonian (modern culture)
Collector:
Velimir Nikolov
Collection date:
September 21, 1964
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Mortars (grinding tools)
Accession date:
1965
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
Comment:
see file card and acc. envelope
Loans:
S1965-1966 #41: Department of Home Economics (UC Davis) (January 18, 1966–February 28, 1966)