Mortar
- Museum number:
- 9-11485
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090011485
- Alternate number:
- SS (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.2697
- Description:
- mortar, black granite; used for grinding spices; diameter 19.5 cm x height 10.5 cm.
- Donor:
- Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Ready, Jr. Fund and Richard Lerner
- Collection place:
- Uttar Pradesh, India
- Verbatim coll. place:
- India, Uttar Pradesh, Banda Dist.
- Culture or time period:
- Indian
- Collector:
- Richard Lerner
- Collection date:
- 1970
- Materials:
- Granite (rock)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Ground stone and Mortars (grinding tools)
- Function:
- 1.5 Household
- Accession date:
- 1970
- Context of use:
- usually used by women for grinding spices
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Dimensions:
- height 10.5 centimeters and diameter 19.5 centimeters
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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