Cephalopod Body Patterns as Visual Language. First Conversation. Ryuta Nakajima presents the history and ideas surrounding his ongoing research involving aspects of cuttlefish body patterns in relationship to Art. Part of the interdisciplinary conference The Origin of Image Making: Behavioral Ecology of Cephalopods and Art. Why do we make images...
Social Behavior, Psychology, Neuroscience and Art. Second Conversation. Part of the interdisciplinary conference The Origin of Image Making: Behavioral Ecology of Cephalopods and Art. Why do we make images, where do they come from and what is their primary function? Human image production and image distribution systems have made rapid growth to ...
Pestle. Bat-shaped wood and porcelain pestle; handle is wood and has clubbed end; grinding head is Wedgwood-style "biscuit porcelain." Includes manufacturer markings:"2." A pestle is a blunt, roughly cylindrical implement. It is used with a mortar for crushing, grinding, and blending pharmaceutical or culinary preparations. Mortar and pestles ar...
Created:
1801 - 1900?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Pestle. Bat-shaped wood and ceramic pestle; handle is wood and has clubbed end; grinding head is stone. A pestle is a blunt, roughly cylindrical implement. It is used with a mortar 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 ...
Created:
1801 - 1900?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Mortar and pestle. Small, cylindrical ceramic two-handled mortar with flared lip; blue and white delftware decoration with hand-painted cobalt blue "blue onion" pattern and horizontal cobalt blue stripes circumscribing body of mortar; small, cylindrical pestle with clubbed ends and blue-and-white decoration. Includes manufacturer markings:"Rx" ...
Contributor:
Squibb Corporation, Delft, Netherlands)
Created:
1960 - 1989?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Mortar and pestle. Bowl-shaped ceramic mortar with small, open, triangular spout at rim; cylindrical ceramic pestle with clubbed end at grinding head. 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. Mo...
Created:
1900 - 1970?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Pestle. Small, bat-shaped ceramic pestle with clubbed end at handle. A pestle is a blunt, roughly cylindrical implement. It is used with a mortar 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 the 13th century have been sy...
Created:
1850 - 1950?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.