Chapters on the ethnology of the Powhatan tribes of Virginia (1928)
Speck, Frank Gouldsmith, 1881-1950, Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · New York : Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · leaf 174
384 ETHNOLOGY OF THE used. Only one implement exhibiting the form of the stone pestle has been found on the Pamunkey reservation, a smoothed stone of the pestle type, ten inches long, which was used by the wife of the chief for cracking corn, hitting the kernels upon a plank (fig. 87). She stated… … Fig. 86. — Chickahominy children cracking walnuts with stone mortar and pounder. employed it in a mortar. Aside from this tool the Virginia pestle seems to have been of the wooden form, though not of the long, heavy, double-ended type of the Iroquois, Delawares, and Cherokee. Baskets for…
Powhatan Indians · Indians of North America
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