Effigy Metate (Grinding Stone)

AD 700-1550 (Late Period V–Period VI)

21.8 cm 9.8 cm 15.9 cm

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In 1502, the Spanish observed monolithic carved "boards" being used as funeral biers, their animal imagery identified as clan symbols. Other early accounts mention the use of similar but smaller "tables" to grind tobacco and other hallucinogenic materials used during shamanic...

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Stendahl Galleries, Los Angeles; purchased by John G. Bourne, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1945; given to Walters Art Museum, 2013.
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