metate

• On a day hike up Coyote Gulch, we saw colorful pictographs and found an alcove dwelling with an intact mano and metate for grinding corn. —  coloradoan.com - Local News
• I discovered a fine large metate or Indian mill, deeply hollowed out, and foolishly attempted to take it to camp. —  A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872
• 43. The first of the latter shows the use of a discarded metate, or mealing stone, and the second of a gourd that has been walled into the coping Illustration: Fig. —  A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228
• These are gathered in a basket, ground on a metate, and the oily mass formed into a ball with the hands. —  The North American Indian
• Squatting before the metate, she looked at the little pile of bruised seeds with the utmost satisfaction. —  The Heart of the Desert Kut-Le of the Desert

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