Pestle
46-6-277
From: United States of America | North Carolina
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 46-6-277 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | United States of America | North Carolina |
| Culture Area | Southeast Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Stone |
| Description | "Stone grinder or pounder. "pounded with." Used for grinding or pounding hexlor or bark in medicine making. Also for grinding nut meat (butternut and walnut) on stone table to make oil. Held in two hands and ground by end rubbing and anvil stone. Found in field on reservation." |
| Length | 28 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 6.7 cm |
| Credit Line | Cherokee Expedition; Frank G. Speck and John G. Witthoft, 1946 |
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