128700 Catalog Card
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| Title | 128700 Catalog Card |
| Description | scan of catalog card[FRONT][MAIN BODY] Field Museum of Natural History. | [Field Museum Subject Code written in red] 34-48 | Country: Philippine Islands. | Locality: Bataan, Luzon. | People: Negrito. Stock. | Name; Kal?kat :- Lime tobacco masher made of bamboo. The pestle is an iron blade like a screwdriver set in a wooden handle with a thimble for a guard. The mortar is a bamboo tube with plaited rings on it. (over) | Collection: R.F. Cummings Philippine Expedition, 1909=1911. F.C. Cole, Collector. | Notes: Lime and tobacco are mashed with betel nut and used by thosewhose teeth present them from chewing. | Width: | Length: | Height: | Price: ?.10rJ. |[LEFT MARGIN] A | 128700 | ENT | (754) | Acc. 1115 | [Cursive capital L.] | [BACK] When a person is unable to chew the betel nut, either by reason of age or because of mutilated teeth, this instrument is employed. The nut, leaf, lime, and a small quantity of tobacco are put in the bamboo mortar and are mashed with the iron pestle until soft enoughto be gummed. | |
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| Summary | 128700 Catalog Card, [0.335 MB], (application/pdf) |
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