Object Details
- Description
- The swampy environment of the South Carolina low country made it unsuitable for traditional English agricultural methods. In response, British colonists turned to non-traditional rice cultivation, combining the rice-growing knowledge of enslaved West Africans, with their own experimental agricultural techniques. Harvesting rice in the swampland was a laborious process, and required special tools. Mortars, such as this one, were used with a pestle in the milling process of rice, to remove the husk and chaff from the grain.
- ID Number
- DL.087680
- catalog number
- 087680
- Object Name
- Mortar
- Object Type
- mortar
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Many Voices, One Nation
- Exhibition
- Many Voices, One Nation
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_316742
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a1-18db-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
