A fairly common material for both hupfs and ahsts is highly vesicular basalt grading into pumice stone, the material corresponding fairly with a favorite metate material among the Mexicans.
With Cesca looking on sardonically, Molly poured fresh seeds on her rudemetate and showed Rhoda the grinding roll that flattened and broke the little grains.
Molly poured more seeds on the metateand Rhoda began again.
While the ground color was being laid a man sat on one side of the lodge grinding with a metate and mixing the colors.
In one grave there was found a metate reversed over a skeleton, probably that of a woman--although the bones were so disintegrated that the determination of the sex of the individual was impossible.
Footnote 89: A singlemetate of lava or malpais was excavated at Awatobi.
The metate is a sort of little table, hewn out of the basalt, with four little feet, and its surface is curved from the ends to the middle.
Rubbing stones used with a coarse metate for shucking and cracking corn.
Other examples derive from Caguama and Metate caves between Comondú and Loreto.
The only similar specimen know in the archaeology of the peninsula is a fragment of a tump band from the upper or historic level of Metate Cave near Comondú.
In Metate Cave there was a single complete carrying net (Massey and Tuohy, MS).
Tusayan roof drains; a discarded metate and a gourd.
Can you see the broken metatethat was used as a building stone?
Deep-basin metate with associatedmetate fragments; carbon-smudged blocks of disintegrated sandstone core tools; and sections of human femora.
Four inverted metates, additional metate fragments, manos, core tools, and a single fragment of a slate pendant.
A basin metate had been reported; and a fragment of one, of sandstone and shaped on its outer surface, was found.
The deep-basin metate was right side up, in contrast to the usual inversion.
Often, the segmented long bones were encountered in conjunction with those features composed of a concentration of large unworked stone and metate fragments.
Upon further investigation, the metate proved to be resting on the stones of a fireplace from which a few broken human bones protruded.
The only occurrence was a single metate associated with the cairn in burial 4.
Disintegrated, pitted metate and fragments of 2 other metates; mano fragments; core tools; unworked stone; and unidentifiable fragments of human bone.
Like type II, the slab metate is less common, being known only through eleven complete and ten fragmentary specimens.
We carried our little metate on which we ground corn for our meals, but we found it very difficult on this trip of four weeks' duration to secure from day to day corn enough to satisfy our wants.
It is made from toasted corn, which is mixed with water while being ground on the metate until it assumes the consistency of a thick soup.
She was grinding corn on the metate and seemed to pay little attention to either of us, but her personal attractiveness at once impressed me.
It caused them great difficulty in walking, and they could not kneel down at the metate with it.
Not one drop must be spilled, and even the water with which the metateis afterward washed, is added to the liquid.
Accompanying the metate is a crushing or grinding stone about a foot in length and from three to four inches wide.
Each bin contains a metate set at an angle with its lower edge slightly below the level of the floor.
The corn is ground between these two stones, the upper one being worked up and down the metate by a motion of the operator not unlike that of a woman washing clothes on a washboard.
The metate or rubbing-stone is also in use among them.
For grinding maize, as before stated, a kind of metate is used, which with them is nothing more than a convex and a concave stone.
Meal is ground on the metate and used for making porridge, tortillas, and a very thin cake called guayave, which latter forms a staple article of food amongst the Pueblos.
The metate is a slightly hollowed hard stone, upon which soaked maize is laid and then reduced to paste.
The old man was ready for her to grind: he had a metate prepared inside.
The meal used in the Zuni ceremony may have been regarded as sacred, and it may, indeed must, have been made on a stone metate, yet neither the metate nor the stone thereby obtained any holy or sacred character.
Fragment of the foot of a stone metatewith Swastika.
Dow, has on its bottom a Swastika similar to that on the metate from Nicaragua.
The metate was chiseled or pecked out of the solid.
The whole mortar is only about an inch thick; made from a section of an old metate rubber.
Quite a number of the metate rubbing stones and a large number of the axes are composed of a very hard, heavy, and curiously mottled rock, a specimen of which was submitted to Dr.
Rounded end of a sandstone metate grinder converted into a flat hammer by grooving it at the opposite edges.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "metate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
