Hammer stone used by chimpanzees to crack nuts

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Object Number 48-36-50/7277

Display Title Hammer stone used by chimpanzees to crack nuts

Descriptions

Object Description Hammer stone used by chimpanzees to crack nuts

Inventory Description Hammerstone used by chimpanzees to crack nuts

Classification

Food processing

Department Ethnographic

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Africa / Liberia

Additional Geographic Terms Bili Mountain

Materials Stone

Dimensions Overall: 12.9 x 4.4 x 8 cm (5 1/16 x 1 3/4 x 3 1/8 in.)

Quantity 1

Label on object 48-36-50/7277

Provenance

Collector Dr. George W. Harley (1947-1948)

Donor Dr. George W. Harley

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2001.29.17025	"/Gao Music" and another man standing, carrying their hunting equipment, including an assegai, with a group of people sitting, cracking mangetti nuts near them		Nyae Nyae Conservancy
34-91-50/801	5 large nuts or seeds to be used as pendants	Nut	Kaimosi
2001.29.17040	Woman and a man sitting, cracking nuts, with their child sitting behind them		Nyae Nyae Conservancy
2001.29.16733	Woman sitting, cracking nuts, with two children sitting next to her, eating		Nyae Nyae Conservancy
2001.29.19098	"Gao Medicine's" possessions including an anvil stone and another stone used to crack and grind objects		Gautscha

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