A local boy grinds millet by hand using a huge mortar and pestle, Tsaranoro Velley, Andringitra National Park, near the provincial city of Fianarantsoa, southern Madagsacar, Africa
Genoese pesto sauce, garlic, basil, olive oil, cheese, salt, pestle and mortar, Genoa, Italy, Europe
A woman uses a traditional wooden pestle and mortar to grind freshly roasted coffee beans, Ethiopia, Africa
A woman pounding millet using a traditional wooden pestle and mortar at her home compound, Uganda, Africa
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Zambia kaunga mashi village, shangombo district (near the angolan border). Pounding grain
Tanzanian women pounding cassava and dried banana in a wooden mortar and pestle in the traditional way. Kighare, same, in the north-east near kilimanjaro