Food Crusher
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Feb 1887
name: label: Donor Name
content: Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro, Paris (later the Musée de l'Homme)
notes: label: Notes
content: From Card: "Made from a strychnos fruit-- used as a crusher for pepper, salt, peanuts, etc. Used with a large wooden tray. The crusher is held by both hands, a finger inserted in the hole, and is worked back and forth on the tray. -- Leon Siroto, 7-22-64. The Osyeba are one branch of the Pahouin, a group of tribes which includes the Fang as a major element. See Alexandre, P. and J. Binet, 'Le Group Dit Pahouin' (Ethnographic Survey of Africa, French Series), p. 5."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 May 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Gabon, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Pahouin
label: Culture
content: Osyebas
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 018694
label: USNM Number
content: E127990-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pestle
physicalDescription: label: Diameter
content: 8.9 cm