3722 WONDERFUL LIFELONG COLLECTION OF NATIVE AMERICAN

Category Firearms & Military
Auction Currency USD
Start Price 250.00 USD
Estimated at 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD
GRINDING STONES. Grinding stones, both metates (mortars) and mano (pestles) & stone rollers are found throughout Native American societies and were major part of agrarian life. Glen Mattox had his collection beautifully displayed on one wall of his museum store mixed in with other artifacts. Many of the pestle grinding stones & rollers are finely tapered with cut rings. The largest mortar is 16" x 15", 6" deep with incised line cut around perimeter closed on 3 sides sloped & so flour easily taken out, this stone weighs almost 50 pounds. Here is your chance to buy a lifelong of collecting of over 50 stone utensils used for hundreds of years in Native American society. CONDITION: very good overall, several of the rollers were excavated in 2 pieces and now glued back together. PROVENANCE: from the Lifelong Collection of Glen E. Mattox. (02-18919-1/JS). $500-1,000.