111. (40907). Chili or red pepper mortar of very porous lava rock; oval bottom, shallow cavity, about four inches thick and eight in diameter. These lava mortars may have been used for other purposes, but at the present time the Indians use them in crushing the pods and seeds of red pepper, and occasionally for crushing parched corn. They are quite common.
112. (40908). Food mortar of lava rock; square with flat bottom. Mortars of this kind are used in crushing grain and seeds.
| Fig. 358 ([42272]) (½) |
113. ([42272]). Fig. [358]. Paint mortar of very hard, fine-grained sandstone. The specimen is a very fair type of all the square paint
mortars and pestles. The depression is often square instead of round. In grinding pigments the Indians generally move the pestle backward and forward instead of around as is done by our druggists.
114. (41273). Small sandstone paint mortar, much like the preceding.
115. (40227). Small egg-shaped paint pestle of white quartz. The general name of these in Zuñi is äh-shŏc-tōn-ne.
116. (42276). Flat sandstone, circular and about five inches in diameter; used as a quoit; originally a rubbing stone.
MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS.
117. (39755). Eight specimens not very well defined. They are flint flakes, showing, by their shape, that they were designed for scrapers and groovers, being flat or slightly concave on one side and oval on the other.