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Most of whetstone holders from Ethnology Department collection of the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina are richly decorated.&nbsp; Folk beliefs are linked with this object, considering water held in it healthy. Whetstone holder <a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a>belongs to the collection of folk agriculture implements and traditional means of transport, which consists of 114 objects of similar use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":26855,"template":"","section":[38],"class_list":["post-26854","item","type-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","section-material-culture-section"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Whetstone Holder - Zemaljski muzej BiH<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/zemaljskimuzej.ba\/en\/item\/whetstone-holder\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Whetstone Holder - Zemaljski muzej BiH\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A whetstone holder is a grooved piece of wood which mowers filled with water and carried on their waist-belts. 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