Mortar
Panamint Shoshone
c 1928-1945
Inyo Co, CA

The Shoshone were well adapted to Death Valley and knew how to cultivate plants for food, medicine, and tools. The mortar and pestle were used to pound various seeds into a finer mass to be used in cooking. Tthis mortar and pestle may have been used to pound mesquite seed pods into flour meal.
Wood. L 25, Dia 17 cm
Death Valley National Park, DEVA 410

Pestle
c 1928-1945
Inyo Co, CA
Panamint Shoshone
Travertine. L 44, W 9 cm
Death Valley National Park, DEVA 442