Native American Grinder

Object/Artifact

Door County Museum and Archives

Name/Title

Native American Grinder

Entry/Object ID

2019.41.2

Description

Native American stone grinding(?) tool; cross-section is a rough isosceles triangle, shape of the largest face is somewhat like a narrow flat-sided football. The thinnest edge is notched with 8 to 12 narrow grooves on each side of the edge.

Cataloged By

Bill Rice

Acquisition

Accession

2019.41

Source or Donor

Steve Olaf Olson

Acquisition Method

Gift

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Grinder, Food

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Tool, Food Grinding

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Food Preparation Equipment

Nomenclature Class

Food Processing & Preparation T&E

Nomenclature Category

Category 04: Tools & Equipment for Materials

Search Terms

tools, Native American, pre-Columbian, tool, Native American, archaeology

Dimensions

Length

4-3/4 in

Dimension Notes

greatest width of each face: 1 5/8", 1 3/4", 1 1/4"

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Olson, Steve

Provenance

Notes

Dug up at the site by the father of the donor. The site locality is in the W/2 of sec. 17, Gibraltar Twp. at the base of a bluff - near Juddville. According to the donor this site was inhabited by Native Americans as recently as the 1960s.

General Notes

Note

Notes: These two tools need to be evaluated by a Native-american archeological expert.

Created By

[email protected]

Create Date

November 30, 2019

Updated By

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Update Date

August 12, 2026