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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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Effigy Pestle
|
New Hampshire
| |
| 67-9-10/83.1 | Stone pestle (or club?) |
Effigy Pestle
|
United States
| |
| 67-10-10/230 | Stone pestle |
Effigy Pestle
|
United States
| |
| 17-6-30/C7829 | Stone pestle with human mask |
Effigy Pestle
|
Puerto Rico
| |
| 67-12-10/512 | Stone pestle |
Effigy Pestle
|
Salisbury
| |
|
Image Not Available
for Stone hammer or pestle
| 95-11-10/47847 | Stone hammer or pestle |
Effigy Pestle
|
British Columbia
| |
|
Image Not Available
for Stone pestle head
| 19-21-30/C9170 | Stone pestle head |
Effigy Pestle
|
Puerto Rico
| |
|
Image Not Available
for Stone pestle with human mask
| 17-6-30/C7830 | Stone pestle with human mask |
Effigy Pestle
|
Puerto Rico
| |
| 48-61-20/18041 | Stone pestle with carved animal (jaguar?) head at top |
Effigy Pestle
|
San Jose
| |
| 69-34-10/2382 | Bird's head pestle |
Effigy Pestle
|
Concord
| |
| 79-14-20/17920 | Grinding stone, human form |
Effigy Pestle
|
Federal District
| |
| 67-29-10/676 | Stone pestle, broken |
Pestle
|
Concord
|