. Bulletin. Ethnology. kroeber] HANDBOOK OF INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA 697 Francisco Bay shell inomids and in graves on the Santa Barbara coast. The sonthern California mortar is a block of stone hollowed out, when new, some 2 or 3 inches, but gradually wearing deeper. The hopper is by no means always employed. If jiresent. it is always at- tached with asphalt or gum, Neither of the two central and northern types of mortar is know^n—the bedrock hole and the slab with loose, superposed hopper. The pestle, as in central California, is frequently only a long cobble, sometimes slightly dressed at the g
. Bulletin. Ethnology. kroeber] HANDBOOK OF INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA 697 Francisco Bay shell inomids and in graves on the Santa Barbara coast. The sonthern California mortar is a block of stone hollowed out, when new, some 2 or 3 inches, but gradually wearing deeper. The hopper is by no means always employed. If jiresent. it is always at- tached with asphalt or gum, Neither of the two central and northern types of mortar is know^n—the bedrock hole and the slab with loose, superposed hopper. The pestle, as in central California, is frequently only a long cobble, sometimes slightly dressed at the grinding end or along one side (Fig. 58, 5). For mesquite beans and perhaps other foods, the desert Cahuilla use a deep wooden mortar sunk into the ground. This has its counter- part on the Colorado River; but the Cahuilla form appears to average a more extended section of log and deeper hole. A, pestle of unusual. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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