Mortars and pestles were made of granite, about sixteen inches wide at the top, ten at the bottom, ten inches high and two thick.
North Yakima and is of rather unusual shape, having a short striking head of the shape of the typical pestles of northern and western Vancouver Island.
Simple short cylindrical or conoid pebbles, only slightly changed from their natural form, are used for pestles in the Nez Perce region to the east.
The stone objects considered as pestles and shown in Figs.
Some of the pestles differ from those found either to the north or on the coast, many of them being much longer, although Mr. James Teit informs me that very long pestlesare occasionally found in the Thompson River region.
Many oblong pebbles suitable for pestles without being changed from their natural form were seen in both the Yakima and the Columbia Valleys.
On the flat, at the very head of Priest Rapids, the river, during high water had washed out the remains of a village or camp site, where pestles and animal bones were numerous.
The pestles found in the vicinity of Vancouver Island are similar to some of the short pestles found in the Yakima region.
When rice is wanted for food, the paddy is dried in the sun, and then pounded by the women in wooden mortars with pestles five feet long.
I have seen as many as six girls use their pestles in quick succession at one mortar.
As a rule two or three women each use their pestles at one mortar, which is cut out of the trunk of a tree.
The pestles also are of two kinds, smaller and larger, each likewise of brass, and from the lower end of them there projects a round knob, and this alone is pressed into the mould and makes the hollow part of the cupel.
When the pestles have been long used, they become precious and are sold at great prices.
They employ no mill to torturate the coffee, but beat it with wooden pestles in mortars.
Within this square two grain-pounding pestles are stuck upright in the ground.
A pandal (booth) is erected, and beneath it two pestles or rice-pounders are set up.
Wooden mortars and pestles can not be totally excluded, but the great preponderance of manos and metates would probably preclude any serious assumption that mortars and pestles ever played any important roll at the Tank Site.
Pestles Five complete pestles were recovered, providing a total of nine for the two seasons.
Considering the area excavated and the very small number of both mortars and pestles that were recovered, it would be safe to assume this complex was of little significance in the history of the Tank Site.
This example, by far the largest recovered from the Tank Site, compares in many respects to pestles associated with later cultures of the coast and interior.
One side shows evidence of flattening by grinding, and in this respect it is like the cache of three small pestles from the Tank Site.
Though only two mortars and four pestles were found, it would indicate a considerable statistical increase over the Tank Site, especially when the amount of digging done in the two sites is compared.
Metates or grain-grinders, pestles and rubbing stones belong to the milling industry among the Indians.
The pestles and mortars obtained from these tribes are all too small to be used for any other purpose than grinding pigments.
Nearly all the pestles and mortars from Wolpi present evidences of age.
Besides flint arrow-heads, pestles and mortars, fashioned out of a porous stone, are also to be found.
Grit from ashes and fine sand from mortars and pestles will cut away the enamel to a much greater extent than would result from the use of ordinary food.
There were more than 100 pestles which bore evidence of much use; and probably as many more on which there was little or no sign of wear.
The pestles were made flat, top and bottom, so that either end could be used for pounding.
In Africa, mortars and pestles of wood have been used from a period of unknown antiquity for the purpose of crushing grain.
In India, stone mortars with wooden pestles have for centuries been used for shelling and pounding rice.
These pestles are now mostly out of date and superseded by cast-iron ones with steel faces, procured from the traders.
In preparing food stone pestles of various sizes were formerly used of the shape shown in Fig.
Pestles were always of hard and heavy wood, and fully 3 feet long, taperring from 4 inches to an inch in diameter.
Stone mortars and pestles were in use among the Toltecs and Aztecs in making tortillas, and are found in South Carolina,[1036] and elsewhere in the United States.
Very similar stone pestles to those from Orkney were in use among the North American Indians[1033] for pounding maize, and some are engraved by Squier and Davis.
In New Zealand also fern roots are pounded for food, with pestles of basalt.
Both in cists or graves, and in the remains of ancient circular habitations, have numerous hammer-stones and pestles been found, associated with various other articles manufactured from stone and bone.
The ore passes in succession under three pestles of cast iron, each of which is heavier the nearer it is to the sieve through which the sand or pounded matter escapes.
An arbor or axle a a, moved by water, and turning horizontally, tosses up these wooden pestles, by means of wipers or cams, which lay hold of the shoulders of the pestles at l l l.
It is calcined to make it crushable, under stamp-pestles driven by machinery, then ground fine in hornstone mills, as represented in figs.
Pestles and mortars for pounding the colours are shown in the Case.
In the lower part of Case 36 are examples of pestles and mortars (No.
They include a series of ancient colours, pestles and mortars, some paintings on wood, one, painted by the encaustic process, enclosed in its ancient wooden frame.
It is therefore admirably adapted to accompany the regular falling of the pestles while beating out the rice.
Quite as popular, with the small girls, are tiny pestles with which they industriously pound rice chaff, in imitation of their mothers.
These pestles are five and a quarter inches square, ten feet long, and at their lower end formed into a truncated cone of three inches diameter, where cut off.
One peculiar circumstance in connection with these relics was that some broken mortars and pestles were repaired by the use of asphaltum as a cement.
The pestles are of the same material, and their form is shown in fig.
Those east of the lakes are flat instead of curved, but still superior to any now made, and in connection with them have been found the pestles with which maize was crushed.
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