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Stone for crushing baobab seeds
Object Number 2020.3.5
Display Title Stone for crushing baobab seeds
Descriptions
Inventory Description Stone, round, smooth, brown in color
Classification
  • Pestle
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Hadza
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Tanzania
Materials Stone
Dimensions Overall: 4.4 × 4.4 × 3.3 cm (1 3/4 × 1 3/4 × 1 5/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 2020.3.5
Credit Line Gift of Frank Marlowe, Anthropologist, and the Hadza people of Tanzania

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