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Maker(s):Unknown
Culture:Native American; American Indian
Title:Mano and Metate
Type:Food Processing
Materials:stone
Place Made:North America; United States
Measurements:Overall: 1 in x 11 1/4 in x 4 1/4 in; 2.54 cm x 28.575 cm x 10.795 cm
Accession Number:  MH SK 2006.1209a-b.INV
Credit Line:Joseph Allen Skinner Museum, Mount Holyoke College
Museum Collection:  The Joseph Allen Skinner Museum at Mount Holyoke College
 

This object is under review for NAGPRA-sensitivity.

Recent updates to NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act) require consent from lineal descendants and/or affiliated Native American Tribes or Native Hawaiian Organizations before displaying or researching cultural items. We have removed the public image of this belonging until we can learn more about the wishes of affiliated Tribal officials or the descendants of those who made it.

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Description:
Gray stone mortar and pestle. Pestle is wide and flattened with a slightly convex face; marked with a printed sticker: "Mrs. R. Nelson Mott, Worcester, Massachusetts." Mortar is a slightly concave square gray stone with rounded edges.

Tags:
ancient; Native American; indigenous people; archaeology

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