prmlogo2Cook-Voyage Collections
at the Pitt Rivers Museum

1886.1.1166

PRM0001349165179Pestle, of wood, from Tonga; part of the Forster collection (Forster 80; 1886.1.1166)

Pestle of wood, rounded at the widest end with a mushroom shaped top to the narrow end. Plaited coconut cord is tied around the handle of the grinder

 

  PRM0001309605179Pestle (with scale)
PRM0001309615179Pestle, showing base
PRM0001297115179Ashmolean label
PRM0001297105179Ashmolean and pre-Pitt Rivers labels
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