Mortar
- Museum number:
- 1-2567
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21010002567
- Alternate number:
- 201 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.93
- Description:
- Flat stone on which acorns are pounded." Irregular outline. Graywacke, unshaped, use wear only.
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst and University of California Archaeological Survey
- Collection place:
- Blocksburg, Humboldt County, California
- Verbatim coll. place:
- California; Humboldt; Blocksburg
- Culture or time period:
- Lassik
- Collector:
- Pliny Earle Goddard
- Collection date:
- 1903
- Materials:
- Graywacke
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Ground stone and Mortars (grinding tools)
- Function:
- 1.5 Household
- Accession date:
- 1903
- Context of use:
- The flat mortar stone (probably set in the house floor) on which a basketry hopper was placed for pounding acorns.
- Department:
- Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
- Dimensions:
- length 33 centimeters and width 24 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-