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two Chokwe wood tobacco mortars
ECU #L0099 AThese two wood tobacco mortars are sculpted with crouching human figures. Tobacco, introduced to Africa in the sixteenth century, was ground in mortars to be taken as snuff or chewed. It was given as an offering to ancestors or as a gift to visitors and friends.
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