Mortar, "nisu"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Jun 2005
name: label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: Dark wood, carved into hourglass shape, but bigger on one end, and hollowed out. Major crack along one side, several minor cracks. According to Chisato Dubreuil, this would be used with a pestle (see E430667-0 and E430668-0), to grind rice or millet. Made for the 1999 NMNH exhibit "Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People" using traditional Ainu materials and techniques.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Japan, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ainu
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2026093
label: USNM Number
content: E430607-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mortar
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 49 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 49.5 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 62.5 cm