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Object Number 12-61-70/10861.1.4159
Display Title Man and woman pounding rice with pestles
Descriptions
Object Description Written on board: Rice Culture / Gift of / W.C. Forbes, 1912 / 341/2-a41 Man and woman pounding rice with / pestles in wooden mortar to loosen the hull.
Department Photographic
Date 1898-1912
Culture
  • Philippine
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Philippines
Dimensions Overall: 10.16 x 15.24 cm (4 x 6 in.)
Provenance
Donor William Cameron Forbes

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Man pounding rice in mortar
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Philippines
Man pounding rice in mortar
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Igorot women pounding rice in order to loosen the hull
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Benguet Province
Igorot women grinding rice in mortar and pestle to make flour
12-61-70/10861.1.1206 Igorot women grinding rice in mortar and pestle to make flour
Bontoc
2 Broken pounding stones or pestles
36-1-50/1834 2 Broken pounding stones or pestles
Raw Material
Pestle
Aouker
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Woman pounding the roots of the Rhus aromatica to loosen the bark
2004.29.4351 Woman pounding the roots of the Rhus aromatica to loosen the bark
New Mexico
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Naulila
Pestles for pounding grain, leaning against a fence (print is a cropped image)
2001.29.25241 Pestles for pounding grain, leaning against a fence (print is a cropped image)
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Man threshing rice with his feet
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Philippines
Media Restricted
12-61-70/10861.1.3104 Two Tinguian girls preparing to hull rice in front of house
Abra Province
Media Restricted
12-61-70/10861.1.1740 Young woman posed squatting on a rice mortar
Philippines
4 pestles
968-17-60/12344 4 pestles
Raw Material
Pestle
Tepe Langar