| Title | Mortar and pestle |
| Date | 2008 |
| Material Type | Mortars (grinding tools)
Pestles
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| Description | Carved mahogany mortar and pestle. Origin Conakry, Guinea. |
| Dimensions | Height of mortar: 32.5 cm; Length of pestle: 59.69 cm |
| Subject | Art objects -- Guinea
Mortars -- Guinea
Pestles -- Guinea
Wood-carving -- Guinea
|
| Geographic Region | Africa, Sub-Saharan
Africa, West
Conakry (Guinea)
|
| Collector | Franks, Curtis J.
|
| Collection in Repository | Fulbright-Hays Collection
|
| Collection Note | In 2008, Curtis J. Franks travelled to West Africa as a participant in the Fulbright-Hays program under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Education to explore historical and cultural connections between people of African descent in the Lowcountry and Africans in the Mano River Region (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and the Ivory Coast), where the artifacts in this collection were acquired. |
| Call Number | 2008.007.005 |
| Holding Institution | Avery Research Center at the College of Charleston
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| Digital Collection | Avery Research Center Artifact Collection
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| Rights | Digital image copyright 2010, The College of Charleston Libraries. All rights reserved. For more information contact The College of Charleston Library, Charleston, SC 29424. |
| Media Type | Objects |
