Basketry And Stone Mortar And Pestle ("To-Pal & To-Pa")
date: label: Accession Date
content: 15 Jun 1942
label: Collection Date
content: 22 Sep 1901
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. C. H. Merriam
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. C. H. Merriam
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Consisting of a stone boulder with crudely shaped edges and excavated by pecking on top surface into semi-globular form, the margin of which has been pitched. Around the margin of this excavationh is placed a truncated section of a coiled basket serving as the upper receptacle [hopper] for acorns to be crushed into meal in the stone excavation beneath. Purchased by Dr. Merriam September 22, 1901 from the household of Moreno of the Luiseno tribe at Lajolla, on the south base of Palomar Mountain. [Loan] A Nation of Nations 12/[19]75. Loan returned Aug 1988." From Merriam's own catalogue card, attached to back of Anthropology catalogue card, along with photo of artifact: "Luiseno. San Diego Co., Calif. To-pal (mortar & basket). To-pa (pestle for same). Diam: 420 mm [= 16 1/2 in.] Found by me at house of Moreno, at Luiseno settlement of La Jolla (south base of Palomar Mt.), Sept 22, 1901. Afterward purchased for me & carried to railroad by Harry S. Merriam."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Jan 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: La Jolla, San Diego County, California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Luiseno (Payómkawichum)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 160775
label: USNM Number
content: E382865-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mortar / Pestle