Mano (Pestle)
Mississippian Culture
Southeast
not dated
Stone
Overall: 9 7/16 in. (24 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Horatio Nelson Rust
13.20.823
Geography
Place Found: United States, North America
Period
1000-1400
Object Name
Tools and Equipment: Food Processing
Research Area
Funerary Objects
Not on view
Exhibition History
Sculpture and Sculptor's Drawings, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, SArt 16,21, and 73, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 20-October 7, 1996.
Provenance
Collected by Horatio Nelson Rust (1826-1906), 1876-77 (possibly at either the Spanish Grant site or the Sandy Woods site, Missouri); given to Samuel Colcord Bartlett (1817-1898, Class of 1836, 8th President of Dartmouth College, 1877-1892), in 1881; catalogued by present collection, 1913.
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