To order images and/or obtain permission to use them commercially, please contact the KSHS Reference Desk at KSHS.reference@ks.gov or 785-272-8681, ext. 117.
For more information see the Copyright and Permission FAQ.
A metate or grinding slab is the lowermost millstone for grinding foods or pigments by hand. They are different shapes and sizes. This one was excavated from a Great Bend aspect village site (ancestral Wichita) in Cowley County during Phase IV archeological investigations in 1995. The site had been much impacted by a water line, golf greens, roads, and highways. Excavations had been occurring at the site since 1916.
Date: 1400-1725 CE
Item Number: 455323
Call Number: 14CO3-320-1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 455323
Collections - Archeology
Home and Family - Daily life - Food and Cooking
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Ground Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Metate/Grinding Slab
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Material/Stone Type - Sandstone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Site Name - Country Club
People - American Indians - Prehistoric Cultures - Great Bend aspect
Places - Counties - Cowley
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Late Ceramic, 1500 - 1820 CE
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/455323