Mortar & Pestle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 May 1895
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. William L. Abbott
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "175139A. SNUFF MORTAR AND PESTLE.-OVAL MORTAR, RUDELY CUT FROM WOOD, LEAVING A SHORT HANDLE OR PROJECTION AT ONE END, TO WHICH THE PESTLE IS ATTACHED BY A THONG. THE PESTLE HAS A SCOOP AT THE UPPER END FOR DIPPING THE SNUFF FROM THE MORTAR. LENGTH, 7 INCHES. KIRGHIZ TRIBE, YARKAND, EASTERN TURKESTAN. 175,139. GIFT OF DR. W. L. ABBOTT."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Kashgar (near), Tien Shan Mountains, East Turkestan (Xinjiang), China (not certain), Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kyrgyz
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 029359
label: USNM Number
content: E175139-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mortar/Pestle
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 18 cm