South Carolina Rice Mortar
notes: label: Description
content: The swampy environment of the South Carolina low country made it unsuitable for traditional English agricultural methods. In response, British colonists turned to non-traditional rice cultivation, combining the rice-growing knowledge of enslaved West Africans, with their own experimental agricultural techniques. Harvesting rice in the swampland was a laborious process, and required special tools. Mortars, such as this one, were used with a pestle in the milling process of rice, to remove the husk and chaff from the grain.
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Many Voices, One Nation
label: Exhibition
content: Many Voices, One Nation
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.087680
label: catalog number
content: 087680
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mortar
label: Object Type
content: mortar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)