Skip to search
Skip to main content
Skip to first result
Hearst Museum Portal
About
Bookmarks
0
History
Feedback
Login
Search in
Any Field
Museum number
Alternate number
Accession number
Object name
Object class
Description
Donor
Collection place
Production place
Culture or time period
Maker or artist
Collector
Collection date
Materials
Taxon
Person depicted
Place depicted
Culture depicted
Inscription
Object type
Function
Context of use
Keeling series
Department
Loans
Search
Advanced Search
Give
Search
Search Constraints
Start Over
You searched for:
Object class
Grinding stones
✖
Remove constraint Object class: Grinding stones
Media available
legacy documentation
✖
Remove constraint Media available: legacy documentation
«
Previous
page
|
1
-
to
10
of
12,992
|
Next
page
»
Sort
by Object name
Object name
Museum number
Number of results to display per page
10
per page
per page
10
per page
20
per page
50
per page
100
per page
View results as:
List view
Gallery view
Masonry view
Slideshow view
Search Results
Image
Missing
: Hearst Museum object titled Abrader and mortar, accession number 3-23038, described as mortar and abrading stone; battered concavely on one side of the face; opposite face had abraded facet. Triangular outline.
Image
Missing
: Hearst Museum object titled Anvil or pestle, accession number 16-3837, described as Stone anvil or pestle
Image
Missing
: Hearst Museum object titled Arrow and mortar, accession number 11-45124, no description available.
Image
Missing
: Hearst Museum object titled Asphalt fragments, accession number 1-33787, described as Pestle, broken.
Image
Missing
: Hearst Museum object titled Axe, accession number 11-2588, described as Ground basalt ax, also used as small metate
Image
Missing
: Hearst Museum object titled Basalt pestle fragment, accession number 1-139554, described as basalt fragment of pestle
Image
Missing
: Hearst Museum object titled Basin metate, accession number 1-173340, described as basin metate
×
Abrader and mortar
1 of 12992
Amulet
2 of 12992
Anvil or pestle
3 of 12992
Arrow and mortar
4 of 12992
Asphalt fragments
5 of 12992
Axe
6 of 12992
Bamboo mortar for betel nut
7 of 12992
Bamboo mortar for betel nut
8 of 12992
Basalt pestle fragment
9 of 12992
Basin metate
10 of 12992
previous image
next image
Pause Slideshow
Start Slideshow
«
Previous
page
Next
page
»
1
2
3
4
5
…
1,299
1,300
Limit your search
Object name
❯
Pestle
4,380
objects
Mortar
2,000
objects
Mortar fragment
1,379
objects
Pestle fragment
1,376
objects
Metate
1,300
objects
Metate fragment
747
objects
Black-and-white negative
208
objects
Mortar fragments
147
objects
Molcajete
138
objects
Potsherd
128
objects
more
Object name
»
Object class
❯
Grinding stones
✖
Remove constraint Object class: Grinding stones
12,992
objects
Ground stone
12,992
objects
Stone tools
12,992
objects
Worked stone
12,992
objects
Pestles
6,180
objects
Mortars (grinding tools)
4,163
objects
Metates
2,272
objects
Molcajetes
309
objects
Photographs
254
objects
Black-and-white negatives
208
objects
more
Object class
»
Object type
❯
archaeology
12,202
objects
ethnography
597
objects
documentation
180
objects
(not specified)
12
objects
Media available
❯
legacy documentation
✖
Remove constraint Media available: legacy documentation
12,992
objects
image
4,714
objects
3D
1
objects
video
1
objects
Collection place
❯
The Americas
12,720
objects
North America
12,597
objects
United States
12,105
objects
California
11,241
objects
San Francisco Bay Area, California
3,882
objects
Northern California
3,687
objects
Southern California
2,544
objects
Santa Barbara County, California
2,106
objects
Northeastern California
1,986
objects
North Central California
1,214
objects
more
Collection place
»
Year collected
❯
View distribution
Current results range from
1849
to
2000
Year collected range begin
Year collected range end
View larger »
[Missing]
4,641
objects
Collector
❯
Robert Fleming Heizer
1,231
objects
Ronald Leroy Olson
816
objects
James F. O'Connell
761
objects
Francis A. Riddell
633
objects
James Allan Bennyhoff
625
objects
Philip Mills Jones
548
objects
Arnold R. Pilling
488
objects
Llewellyn Lemont Loud
487
objects
Albert B. Elsasser
483
objects
Franklin Fenenga
459
objects
more
Collector
»
Donor
❯
University Appropriation
3,853
objects
University of California Archaeological Survey
2,539
objects
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
946
objects
Robert Fleming Heizer
884
objects
Ronald Leroy Olson
846
objects
James F. O'Connell
546
objects
Jeremiah B. Lillard
531
objects
Sacramento County Board of Education
531
objects
Walter O. Hussa
467
objects
Llewellyn Lemont Loud
456
objects
more
Donor
»
Culture or time period
❯
American cultures
468
objects
North American cultures
456
objects
North American native cultures
456
objects
California tribes
378
objects
Central California Tribes
190
objects
Northern California tribes
130
objects
North Central California tribes
129
objects
Miwok
78
objects
Eastern Miwok
74
objects
Northeastern California tribes
70
objects
more
Culture or time period
»
Maker or artist
❯
Philip Mills Jones
94
objects
Edward W. Gifford
12
objects
B. F. White
10
objects
William Duncan Strong
10
objects
Robert Fleming Heizer
9
objects
Adán Eduardo Treganza
8
objects
Dee T. Davis
4
objects
E. H. Kemp
4
objects
Julian H. Steward
3
objects
Roy Franklin Barton
3
objects
more
Maker or artist
»
Materials
❯
Acetate film
140
objects
Sandstone
135
objects
Plate glass
124
objects
Basalt (basic igneous rock)
104
objects
Granite (rock)
52
objects
Ceramic (material)
29
objects
Rhyolite
29
objects
Wood (plant material)
28
objects
Quartzite
16
objects
Vesilic basalt
16
objects
more
Materials
»
Taxon
❯
Juncus
2
objects
Olivella
2
objects
Rhus
1
objects
Sambucus mexicana
1
objects
Place depicted
❯
CA-Fre-67, Fresno County, California
1
objects
Accession number
❯
Acc.806
531
objects
Acc.633
485
objects
Acc.2446
467
objects
Acc.2658
399
objects
Acc.24
314
objects
Acc.1180
244
objects
Acc.35
208
objects
Acc.UCAS-79
195
objects
Acc.UCAS-33
189
objects
Acc.UCAS-348
186
objects
more
Accession number
»
Production place
❯
CA-CCo-138, Oakley, Contra Costa County
5
objects
CA-SRI-147, Santa Rosa Island, Channel Islands
3
objects
CA-Fre-67, Fresno County, California
1
objects
Accession year
❯
View distribution
Current results range from
1901
to
2023
Accession year range begin
Accession year range end
View larger »
[Missing]
516
objects
Function
❯
1.5 Household
313
objects
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
20
objects
5.5 Stimulants, Narcotics, and Accessories
20
objects
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
6
objects
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
6
objects
6.2 Toys, Children’s Utensils, Objects used in the Education of Children
4
objects
5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
3
objects
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
2
objects
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
2
objects
8.2 Medicine and Hygiene
2
objects
more
Function
»
Loans
❯
S2001-2002 #15: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Kent Lightfoot (January 23, 2002–January 23, 2003)
182
objects
S1964-1965 #8: University of California, Santa Barbara/Jay Ruby (August 26, 1964–April 17, 1967)
111
objects
S2004-2005 #8: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Kent Lightfoot (dates unknown)
92
objects
S1972-1973 #77: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Thomas Roy Hester (April 6, 1973–July 4, 1973)
44
objects
S2019-2020 #1: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Robert Cuthrell (June 10, 2019–June 16, 2021)
39
objects
S1971-1972 #17: University of California, Riverside/James F. O'Connell (August 20, 1971–1972)
37
objects
S1967-1968 #111: Department of Anthropology (UC Davis)/Jerald Jay Johnson (February 20, 1969–February 18, 1982)
33
objects
S1968-1969 #82: University of California, Davis (February 20, 1969–unknown)
33
objects
S1974-1975 #73: University of California, Davis/Peter Schulz (March 7, 1975–July 31, 1976)
28
objects
S1963-1964 #74: San Francisco State University (March 20, 1964–January 7, 1965)
17
objects
more
Loans
»