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Pounding stone, for Magnetti nuts
Pounding stone, for Magnetti nuts
Object Number 2004.24.33149
Display Title Pounding stone, for Magnetti nuts
Descriptions
Keywords
  • Ethnographic
  • Manufacture and General Utility
Subject
  • Worked Stone
  • Pounder
  • Implement
Department Photographic
Date 1991
Artist Hillel S. Burger
Culture
  • San
  • Ju/'hoansi
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia
Additional Geographic Terms Nyae Nyae Area; Kalahari Desert
Materials Negative, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 5.72 cm (2 1/4 in.)

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