Mortar

Museum number:
1-121972
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21010121972
Accession number:
Acc.UCAS-79
Description:
Small mortar.
Donor:
University of California Archaeological Survey
Collection place:
CA-Ala-307, Berkeley, Alameda County
Verbatim coll. place:
Trench C-5; 48" R, 48" in., south corner, 54" depth
Culture or time period:
Middle Horizon: Lower Berkeley Pattern (ca. 3500–500 BC) and Upper Berkeley Pattern (ca. 500–1000 AD)
Collector:
Arnold R. Pilling
Collection date:
April 1950
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Ground stone and Mortars (grinding tools)
Accession date:
1950
Department:
Associated funerary objects
Comment:
Paint or medicine mortar. Typical of cylindrical type often shaped from end of a broken pestle (E. Moore)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Mortar, accession number 1-121972, described as Small mortar.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mortar, accession number 1-121972, described as Small mortar.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Mortar, accession number 1-121972, described as Small mortar.

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