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Object Number
2004.24.17214
Display Title
Small wooden mortars, horn, shell and nut containers with covers,
Descriptions
Object Description
Small wooden mortars; horn container with cover; container made of nut? Small covers, shell container. Liberia. Cat. No.: H/1112(3); H/1121; H/1122(2); H/1118; H/1129; H/953; two the property of G. W. Harley. See: PM Papers, vol. XXXI, fig. 61, c.
Subject
- Shell
- Container
- Wood
- Mortar
- Nut
- Horn
- Cover
Department
Photographic
Date
1944
Artist
Frederick P. Orchard
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa
/
Liberia
Materials
Negative, nitrate
Dimensions
Overall: 8.89 x 12.7 cm (3 1/2 x 5 in.)
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PrimaryMedia | Object Number | Title | Classification | Geography/Provenience | SHARE |
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| 29-76-50/H1118.2 | Horn containers with covers |
Container
Raw Material |
Liberia
| |
| 29-76-50/H1118.1 | Horn containers with covers |
Ornament
Raw Material |
Liberia
| |
| 46-77-30/6361.1 | Nut containers, stoppers missing |
Worked Wood
|
Vilcoshuara
| |
| 46-77-30/6361.2 | Nut containers, stoppers missing |
Wood
|
Vilcoshuara
| |
| 29-76-50/H1122 | Small covers |
Ornament
Raw Material |
Liberia
| |
| 08-36-70/74021 | Mortars for grinding betal nut for old men without teeth and sometimes+ |
Mortar
|
Northern Nueva Vizcaya
Eastern Lepanto | |
| 2004.24.17185 | Dog bell, medicine, containers, animal hair in leather holder, horn, iron chain |
Liberia
| ||
| 29-76-50/H1122.2 | Small covers |
Whorl
|
Liberia
| |
| 29-76-50/H1122.1 | Small covers |
Whorl
|
Liberia
| |
| 96-25-70/49425 | Betel nut mortars |
Mortar
|
Papua New Guinea
| |
| 96-25-70/49425.1 | Betel nut mortars |
Mortar
|
Papua New Guinea
| |
| 17-59-30/F39 | Paint containers ? (said by dr. rice to contain poison) |
Jar
Raw Material |
Brazil
|