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Object Number 12-57-20/84405
Display Title Wooden chocolate frother
Descriptions
Inventory Description Carved wooden implement, long, cylindrical body, carved hand @ base.
Classification
  • Raw Material
  • Tools
Department Ethnographic
Date early 20th Century
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America / Nicaragua
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 32 x 3.7 x 3.7 cm (12 5/8 x 1 7/16 x 1 7/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 84405
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Herbert Clarke Emery, 1912
Provenance
Collector Mr. Herbert Clarke Emery
Donor Mrs. Herbert Clarke Emery (1912)

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