Wooden kitchen utensil (ntyop) for pounding food - universal with all forest tri – Objects

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Object Number 37-32-50/2427

Display Title Wooden kitchen utensil (ntyop) for pounding food - universal with all forest tri

Descriptions

Object Description Wooden kitchen utensil (ntyop) for pounding food - universal with all forest tribes

Inventory Description Mortar, carved wood, goblet shaped, worn

Classification

Mortar

Department Ethnographic

Culture

Bene

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Africa / Cameroon

Additional Geographic Terms Cameroon, southern: Mbalmayon, vicinity of

Materials Wood

Dimensions Overall: 34.7 x 21.8 x 19.8 cm (13 11/16 x 8 9/16 x 7 13/16 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 37-32-50/2427

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09-33-70/75420	Kitchen axes for dividing food, etc.	Knife Raw Material	Matty Island Wuvulu Island
33-76-60/343	Wooden mortar for pounding brick tea	Mortar	Mongolia
22-2-50/B3600	Wooden food-mashing trough - upright	Mortar	Cameroon
2001.29.2998	Food, Pounding: !Ungka pounding something in her mortar, with Sa≠gai sitting next to her		Nyae Nyae Conservancy
2001.29.2996	Food, Pounding: Khuan//a (wife of Gau) pounding something in her mortar		Nyae Nyae Conservancy
2001.29.2997	Food, Pounding: Khuan//a (wife of Gau) pounding something in her mortar		Nyae Nyae Conservancy
2001.29.2995	Food, Pounding: !Ungka pounding something in her mortar, with Sa≠gai sitting next to her		Nyae Nyae Conservancy
99-4-10/53943	Mortar and pestle, used for pounding corn	Mortar	New York

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