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Object Number 06-5-10/66957
Display Title Pestle
Descriptions
Inventory Description Pestle, ground stone, ridges near both ends, wide end chipped and highly abraded
Classification
  • Pestle
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Yurok
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / California / Humboldt County / Weitchpec
Materials Stone
Dimensions Overall: 49.9 x 7.5 x 7.1 cm (19 5/8 x 2 15/16 x 2 13/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 66957
Provenance
Collector Grace A. Nicholson
Donor Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow (1906)

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