Pestle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1904
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. J. Walter Fewkes
notes: label: Notes
content: LEDGER AND CATALOG CARD SAY CASTS SENT TO MUSEO DE LA PLATA, ARGENTINA, IN 1905; BERLIN, GERMANY IN 1905; AND 1 TO SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA IN 1914. Presumably these were all casts, since the original is still here. A224411 and A345866 were also casts of this same pestle, but are not in the collections currently.
label: Notes
content: From card: "In form of a bird. (Owl)?. Made of hard basaltic rock, black color, having in places smooth polish, the handle representing the figure of a bird. The head is owl-shaped, eyes, large and circular surrounded by concerntric rings. Beak, short pointed. Wings indicated by irregular, semi-circular elevations crossed by parallel lines. Legs roughly indicated. Breast covered by a flap hanging from the throat. The left edge of base much broken. Ex. [NMNH] Exhibit Hall 23 9-17-[19]74." Card indicates Jesse Walter Fewkes acquired this pestle from "Archbishop Merina", which is presumably Archbishop Fernando Antonio Arturo de Meriño y Ramirez.
label: Notes
content: Bird-headed stone pestle is illus. Fig. 14, p. 315 in Ostapkowicz, Joanna. 2024. "Stone Carvings from the Lucayan Archipelago: Anthropomorphic Celts, Monolithic Axes and Zoomorphic Figures/Pestles." Revista De Arqueologia Americana 41: 289-334. https://doi.org/10.35424/rearam.i41.4427.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Jun 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Dominican Republic, Caribbean
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 041087
label: USNM Number
content: A220521-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pestle
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: 11.7 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 6.8 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 8.3 cm