Physical Object / Mortar and Pestle with Cooking Bowl

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Title: Mortar and Pestle with Cooking Bowl
Creator: Chumash
Date Created and/or Issued: No date
Publication Information: Museum of Ventura County
Contributing Institution: Museum of Ventura County
Collection: Object Collection
Rights Information: Museum of Ventura County. All rights reserved.
Description: A gray, coarse-grained steatite bowl; globular shape with rounded bottom; exterior is blackened from fire. Stone mortar and pestle; rounded on one end; found and taken from Somis. Donated to the Museum. Metate; round shape with surface depression for grinding; found and taken from Cañada Larga area. Donated to the Museum.
Type: physical object
Identifier: Accession No.: 1913-1.163
Accession No.: 2003-59.1
Accession No.: 1997-59.20
Subject: Chumash Indians--Material culture
Place: California
Ventura County (Calif.)
Ventura (Calif.)
Somis (Calif.)

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