Wooden milk churner
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Nov 2000
label: Collection Date
content: 1980
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Labelle Prussin
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Labelle Prussin
notes: label: Notes
content: Carved wood. Long handle with notch in the middle, and slightly flared at the end. Head is round with deep notches, flat on the end.
label: Notes
content: Donor's notes say that this is a milk churner -- the long handle is rolled back and forth in both hands. She obtained it from Fulani (Peul) nomads in Mali, north of the Futa Djallon (Guinea) in 1980. A similar churn is used by the East African nomadic peoples.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Jan 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Mali, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Fulani
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 420734
label: USNM Number
content: E431636-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Churning Stick
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 45 cm
label: Width
content: 7 cm
label: Height
content: 6.5 cm