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Masher with square head with incising in dark wood around top. Graduated bands of ornamental carving surmounted by shaped handle with faceted knob.
pestles
cookware
carving (processes)
incising
wood (plant material)
Carved
Incised
Wood
Treen
Pestle
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
9.938 (H), 2.125 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.666
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