Name/Title
Stone Mortar and Pestle setEntry/Object ID
100274Scope and Content
Attic Indian stone mortar from the late Richard Bull Farm (Brown's inventory)
(AI) Object: Two sets of rustic stone metates and manos (traditional grinding basins and hand stones).
Upper Set: Features a wide, shallow carved stone basin with a long, slender stone pestle/mano laying across the basin depression.
Lower Set: Features a deeper, rough-hewn stone basin containing a dark, cylindrical pestle/mano.
Function & Origin: Traditionally used for hand-grinding grains, maize, herbs, seeds, or spices across Indigenous Mesoamerican and Native American cultures, as well as in early rustic farmsteads.