Mortar, Stone Item Number: 1989-57/35-A-172 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Description
Hopper mortar is made of basalt with shallow recess for working surface. Ethnographically, basket was placed in recess and plant material would be ground with a pestle inside basket. Both sides of mortar have been used for grinding. This artifact was among those collected by screening and surface finds in April 1971. Bergen believed that the site from which this mortar was found was a hunting camp area, and that this camp faced into and was on the shore area of the lake; it was indented about three or four feet into the face of a ridge.
Credit Line
Gift of Dr. Harold G. Bergen
Geographical Search Terms
Great Basin Lake County, OR North America Oregon Plateau Western United States
Item History
- Collected by Harold G. Bergen
What
- Name
- Mortar, Stone
- Identification Number
- 1989-57/35-A-172
- Type of Item
- stone mortar
- Material
- stone and basalt stone
- Manufacturing Technique
- ground
- Overall
- length 49.0 cm, width 27.5 cm, height 5.0 cm, diameter 0.0 cm, circumference 0.0 cm, weight 0.0 g
Who
- Field Collector
- Harold G. Bergen
Where
- Holding Institution
- The Burke: University of Washington
Other
- Accession Number
- 1989-57
- Collection
- Burke Museum Archaeology Collection
- Object Count
- 1
- Object Category
- Stone
- Object Sub Category
- Stone, Ground