Mesoamerican quern or milling-stone.
1Rhoda did not answer, but poured another handful of seed on the metate.
2Another single grave contained four large and small cooking pots and a broken metate.
3Elongate, well-worn, sandstone meal rubber or rubber for metate.
4Tusayan roof-drains; a discarded metate and a gourd
5Large, very regularly shaped and much worn metate.
6Squatting before the metate, she looked at the little pile of bruised seeds with the utmost satisfaction.
7Rubbing stones for metate; mostly broken.
8A very regular, much-worn basaltic metate.
9Large regular metate, not much worn.
10Grinding or rubbing stones for metate.
11The metate or grinding slab.
12The metate and roller were now laid aside, and the pretty, rose-coloured fingers of Rosita were thrust into the paste.
13Rubbing stones for metate.
14A large, well-worn metate.
15Not one drop must be spilled, and even the water with which the metate is afterward washed, is added to the liquid.
16While the ground color was being laid a man sat on one side of the lodge grinding with a metate and mixing the colors.