Betel Nut Mortar
1800-1899
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Betel Nut Mortar
1800-1899
Physical Qualities
Wood, shell, teeth, beads, pigment, 10 3/4 x 3 15/16 x 2 9/16 in. (27.3 x 10 x 6.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Alan Wurtzburger
Object Number
1955.251.134
Supported by male and female figurines
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1955; Alan Wurtzburger
The Baltimore Museum of Art News. December 1955. pg. 4.
Douglas F. Fraser & Paul S. Wingret, "The Wurtzburger Collection of Oceanic Art" , BMA 1956 pg. 34-35. ills. 134.
Howarth, Crispin, and Deborah Waite. Varilaku: Pacific Arts from the Solomon Islands. National Gallery of Australia, 2011.
