Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected by ethnologist and ethnomusicologist Frances Densmore (1867-1957) in 1913 or 1914; purchased by MAI from Frances Densmore in 1917.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Lakota (Teton/Western Sioux)
- Collector
- Frances T. Densmore, Non-Indian, 1867-1957
- Seller
- Frances T. Densmore, Non-Indian, 1867-1957
- Object Name
- Food-pounding surface
- Media/Materials
- Stone
- Techniques
- Ground
- Object Type
- Food Gathering and Preparation
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