Summary

Alternative Name(s): Mortar & Pestle

Toy cooking pot and spoon, constructed from natural clay and then fired. They were made by a 15 year old girl from the Lahfart village, Sidi Ifni Province, in 2008.

It is part of a group of traditional toys collected in the Anti-Atlas area of Morocco by Belgium Socio-cultural Anthropologist Jean-Pierre Rossie, during the period 2005-2011.

Physical Description

Toy cooking pot and spoon, crudely constructed from natural clay and then fired. The body of the pot is roughly circular; it contains a large, slighly curved 'spoon'. Both have patches of white paint.

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