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Description: | Boat shaped wooden mortar for the processing of Arica nut by elderly men prior to chewing, and a stone pestle of tapering cylindrical form. The mortar depression itself is in the centre of the boat and on both sides there is a panel of fret work decoration incorporating two curved beaked birds and one crocodile at each end.
caption: General view of object no. 4.231. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | mortars pestles wood Massim stone | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-90621 | Go to resource |
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