Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected from Etta Hill (Eastern Band of Cherokee) in 1908 by anthropologist Mark Raymond Harrington (1882-1971, MAI staff member) during fieldwork sponsored by George Heye.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Eastern Band of Cherokee
- Previous owner
- Etta Hill (Ettie Hill), Eastern Band of Cherokee
- Collector
- Mark Raymond Harrington (M. R. Harrington/MRH), Non-Indian, 1882-1971
- Object Name
- Mortar
- Media/Materials
- Wood
- Techniques
- Carved
- Dimensions
- 50 x 39.5 - 43 x 32.5 cm
- Object Type
- Food Gathering and Preparation
- Indigenous Term
- ka no' nu'n
