Rugose Bowl For Grinding Salt
date: label: Accession Date
content: 15 Feb 1900
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Walter Hough
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "TERRA COTTA WITH THIN GLAZE. EMPLOYED FOR GRINDING, USUALLY SALT AND CHILI TOGETHER ON POWDERING HERBS. THE GRINDING IS DONE WITH A SMALL HAND STONE OF CONICAL FORM." FROM CARD: "BOWL FOR GRINDING SALT, MOCAJETE.-SMALL, GLAZED, EARTHENWARE BOWL, WITH THE INNER SURFACE CORRUGATED TO FACILITATE THE GRINDING OF SALT AND CHILI. A SMALL STONE PESTLE IS USED FOR THE PURPOSE. DIAMETER, 5 INCHES. OAXACA, MEXICO. 204,668. COLLECTED BY WALTER HOUGH. BOWLS HAVING CORRUGATIONS ARE FOUND ON ANCIENT SITES IN MEXICO AND THEIR PURPOSE HAS BEEN EXPLAINED BY W. H. HOLMES."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Oaxaca, Mexico, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 036143
label: USNM Number
content: E204668-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bowl
physicalDescription: label: Diameter - Object
content: 13 cm