Large, flat-topped stone. Samuel A. Barrett filed notes, p. 94: "am mortar stone Sunk down level with ground & acorns pounded directly upon it without basket. The ground around this was hard & smooth where the acorn meals had been pounded for a long time. As more acorns are needed simply brush them on to the rock with the hand. The brush 1269 is used to clean the stone of meal.
Donor:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection place:
Round Valley, Mendocino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; Mendocino; Round Valley
Culture or time period:
Konkow (Northwestern Maidu)
Collector:
Samuel A. Barrett
Collection date:
July 1907
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Ground stone and Mortars (grinding tools)
Function:
1.5 Household
Accession date:
1907
Context of use:
The surface of this stone was just level with the surface of the ground and the meal was pounded directly upon the stone, no basket or other means of retaining the meal being used.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Samuel A. Barrett filed notes, p. 94: "am mortar stone Sunk down level with ground & acorns pounded directly upon it without basket. The ground around this was hard & smooth where the acorn meals had been pounded for a long time. As more acorns are needed simply brush them on to the rock with the hand. The brush 1269 is used to clean the stone of meal.