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Object Number
67-10-10/224
Display Title
Stone pestle
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Ground stone pestle, long, one end tapers to carved decorative element, possible zoomorphic face
Classification
- Effigy Pestle
Department
Archaeological
Date
before 1795
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
Massachusetts
/
Essex County
Additional Geographic Terms
Merrimac river
Materials
Stone
Dimensions
Overall: 54.4 × 5.5 × 5.4 cm (21 7/16 × 2 3/16 × 2 1/8 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
224; P.AL.A.E. Cambridge.
Provenance
Collector
A. Crocker
(1795)
Donor
Massachusetts Historical Society
(1867)
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