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Medicine mortar with shoe bottom

before 1975
20th C.
Africa, Sierra Leone
11 x 5-1/2 x 5-3/4 in. (27.9 x 13.9 x 14.6 cm)

By (primary)
Artist unknown

Culture/People: Mende peoples

Medium: Wood and metal

Credit Line: Gift of Thomas K. Seligman and Rita Barela

Accession Number: 2013.59

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Provenance

Collected by Thomas K. Seligman in Monrovia, Liberia, 1975; Thomas K. Seligman and Rita Barela, San Francisco, CA; given to the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, 2013.

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Mende

Temne

Timne (African people)
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Timne
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Temne (African people)
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surgery
Performing manual or operative procedures to treat diseases, injuries, or deformities. RHDEL2 [April 1993 related term added. October 1992 alternate term added.]

medicine
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surgical
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Operations, surgical
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surgeons
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operating
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shoes (footwear)
Footwear with a relatively stiff sole and heel, and generally covering the foot at or below the ankle joint. [September 1994 scope note changed; related term deleted, was "crakows"; descriptor moved.]

shoe (footwear)
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mortars (grinding tools)
Cup-shaped grinding vessels used in conjunction with a pestle; often made of hard stone. [April 1993 descriptor changed, was 'mortars'; alternate term changed, was 'mortar'.]

mortars
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mortar (grinding tool)
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