. Bulletin. Ethnology. BULL. 30] MORBAH MORTARS 943 Munsee, but properly refers only to those of the tribe under Moravian teachers). Moravins.—Can. Ind. AfY., pt. 2, 65, 1906 (misprint). Morbah {Mur-hdh). The Parrot clan of the Pecos people of N. Mex.—Hewett in Am. Anthrop., vi.,439, 1904. Morbanas. A former tribe, probably Coahuiltecan, met in 1693 on the road from Coahuila to miss^ion San Francisco, Texas.—Salinas (1693) in Dictamen Fis- cal, Nov. 30,1716, MS. cited bv H. E. Bol- ton, inf'n, Morongo. A reservation of 38,600 acres of fair land, unpatented, in Riverside co., s. Cal., oc
. Bulletin. Ethnology. BULL. 30] MORBAH MORTARS 943 Munsee, but properly refers only to those of the tribe under Moravian teachers). Moravins.—Can. Ind. AfY., pt. 2, 65, 1906 (misprint). Morbah {Mur-hdh). The Parrot clan of the Pecos people of N. Mex.—Hewett in Am. Anthrop., vi.,439, 1904. Morbanas. A former tribe, probably Coahuiltecan, met in 1693 on the road from Coahuila to miss^ion San Francisco, Texas.—Salinas (1693) in Dictamen Fis- cal, Nov. 30,1716, MS. cited bv H. E. Bol- ton, inf'n, Morongo. A reservation of 38,600 acres of fair land, unpatented, in Riverside co., s. Cal., occnpied by 286 Mission Indians under Mission Tnle River agencv.—Ind. Aff. Rep., 175, 1902; ibid., 192, 1905; Kel- sey, Rep., 32, 1906. Mortars. Utensils employed by Indian tribes for the trituration of food and other substances. The Southwestern or Mexi- can type of grinding stone is known as a metate, and its operation consists in plac- ing the substance to be treated, dry or moist, on the sloping upper surface of the slab and crushing and rubbing it with a flattish hand-stone until it is reduced to the required consistency or degree of fineness (see Metates, Mnllers). This form of the utensil passes with many variations in size and shape into the tyjncal mortar, a more or less deep receptacle in which the substance is pulverized if dry, or reduced to pulp if moist, by crushing with a pestle, which may be cylindrical, dis- coidal, globular, or bell-shaped. Mortars are made of stone, wood, bone (whale verte- brae) , or impro- vised of rawhide or other sub- stances depend- ing on the region and the materi- ^ als nearest at hand. The more primitive stone forms are bowlders or other suitable pieces hol- ished, the stone in some cases, as in s. California, being obtained by quarrying from the rock in place. California fur-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of
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