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| Length | 7 ½” | | Width | 5 ¼” | | Height | 1 ¾” | | Length | 3 ½” | | Width | 2” | | Weight | 9.6 oz | | SHAMAN MORTAR & PESTLE | Ceremonial, SAN NICOLAS ISLAND, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 19th Century Find | | Weight | 4 lbs 1.1 oz | This is a shaman mortar and pestle from this same 19th century site
Shamans would use these mortar and pestles to prepare various poultices made of herbs and roots
They were NOT used for utilitarian/food preparation
But before that time, in the late 19th early 20th century the island was a
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