Mortar. Small, cup-shaped wooden mortar with pedestal base. A mortar is a bowl-shaped receptacle and a pestle is a blunt, roughly cylindrical implement. Together they are used for crushing, grinding, and blending pharmaceutical or culinary preparations. Mortar and pestles are tools that have been in use, world-wide, since the Stone Age and since...
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Mortar and pestle. Cylindrical wooden mortar decorated with raised bands near lip and base; pedestal base; small wooden pestle with wider ends and more slender portion in the middle. A mortar is a bowl-shaped receptacle and a pestle is a blunt, roughly cylindrical implement. Together they are used for crushing, grinding, and blending pharmaceuti...
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
