Pestles

Native American

  • Titles Pestles (Descriptive)
  • Medium stone
  • Credit Line Gift of Dr. Sam Fischer, Birmingham, Alabama, 1969.55
  • Object Name pestles
  • Classification Tools & Equipment

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Color photograph with four Native American women wearing jingle dress regalia and red bandana face-coverings, standing at Bonneville Salt Flats, blue cloudy sky in background.
Concave circular disk - called Chunkee - used in game
Square riddle or sieve loosely woven of split hickory, molded in the bottom with rounded edge.
The totemic design is well done but rather recent. The paint is vermilion and ball bluing blue. Totemic designs occupy two sides and a design (see card) is on each of the other sides. The box is of red cedar, pegged side and bottom. New looking almost.