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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bosko69, post: 11169846, member: 16283&quot;]Found this 5 3/4&quot; little fellow in a combo junk/antique yesterday. From some quick internet research he sees to be an African Chokwe tribe tobacco snuff mortar.</p><p>The Chokwe used to tobacco to smoke, or as snuff (ground in these tiny mortars) for divination,ancestor veneration,ceremonial and social purposes.</p><p>This piece has a hole in the base,it may have had another sculptural piece mounted below it, or could&#039;ve been attached to a staff (?).</p><p>I&#039;m guessing this is later 20th century,the earlier and more prestigious pieces were generally polished quite smoothly (few, if any chisel marks), and have an overall dark nut brown patina-but I&#039;m def no expert on theses pieces !</p><p>[ATTACH=full]537934[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]537935[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]537936[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]537938[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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