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Carved wood mortar with incised human figures - Donald Ellis Gallery

Mortar

Wasco or Wishram

18th century

wood, metal

height: at side handles: 13"
width: 14 ½"

Inventory # N1536

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PROVENANCE

Jerry Vander Houwen, Yakima, Washington
Trotta-Bono, Shrub Oak, New York

RELATED EXAMPLES

Field Museum of Natural History No. 87705 - See: American Indian Sculpture, Wingert, Hacker Art Books, New York, 1976, pl. 61-2

National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC - See: Two Hundred Years of North American Indian Art, Feder, Praeger Publishers, New York, pl. 8 

Peabody Museum, Harvard University, #83982 - See:  A Time of Gathering, A Time of Gathering, Wright, University of Washington Press, 1991, pl. 5