Cup

Museum number:
5-1585a
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
S37 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.1302
Description:
Suku wooden mortar and pestle for tobacco - Kuyu a makaya; a) mortar; height: 5.25" 13.32cm, diameter: 2.5" 6.35 cm b) pestle missing when unpacked 3/23/1960
Donor:
Igor Kopytoff and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa, Suku
Culture or time period:
Suku
Collector:
Igor Kopytoff
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Cups (drinking vessels) and Mortars (grinding tools)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1960
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Cup, accession number 5-1585a, described as Suku wooden mortar and pestle for tobacco - Kuyu a makaya; a) mortar; height: 5.25" 13.32cm, diameter: 2.5" 6.35 cm b) pestle missing when unpacked 3/23/1960
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Cup, accession number 5-1585a, described as Suku wooden mortar and pestle for tobacco - Kuyu a makaya; a) mortar; height: 5.25" 13.32cm, diameter: 2.5" 6.35 cm b) pestle missing when unpacked 3/23/1960

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