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Wooden pounder
Object Number 87-10-50/40881
Display Title Wooden pounder
Descriptions
Inventory Description Beater, wood handle, conical hammer at 45 deg. angle, carved linear base, cracks
Classification
  • Hammer
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Mozambique
Additional Geographic Terms East Africa, central: Mongue; Inhambane
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 34.8 x 31.4 x 6.8 cm (13 11/16 x 12 3/8 x 2 11/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 87-10-50/40881
Provenance
Collector E. H. Richards (1886)
Donor Donated by Prof. J. H. Thayer

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