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Catalog Number |
CAS 0389-1147A,B | |
| Category | Tools & Implements | |
| Object Name | Medicine grinder | |
| Culture | Japanese | |
| Global Region | East Asia | |
| Country | Japan | |
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| Date of Manufacture | early to mid 1900s | |
| Collection Name | Rietz Collection of Food Technology | |
| Materials | Metal: Cast iron | |
| Description | Medicine grinder consisting of of deep, elongated, trough-like bowl with with a keeled base and wide lip around rim terminating in short funnel-like projection at one end; Round cutting blade is bifacially beveled along edges and was originally hafted to short wooden handle and rolled by hand inside bowl for grinding of Chinese-type medicines into powder form. | |
| Dimensions (cm) | Height = 15.4 (bowl), Width = 14.4 (bowl), Depth = 8.3 (bowl), Thickness = 3.0 (blade), Max Diam = 23.0 (blade), Length = 40.2 (bowl) | |