EXPLANATIONS OF PLATES 

 Unless otherwise noted, all objects described are from Wahluke, Wash. 



Plate 1 

 Hand Pestles of Stone 



No. 1. Large pestle of vesiculate basalt shaped by pecking and crumbling. 

 The pestle is symmetrical in outline and shows tapering from center of shaft 

 upward. Top section has been broken off. Two parallel decorative grooves 

 encircle the pestle at a distance of 11.5 cm. (4.5 in.) from the base. Incised 

 grooves are 1 cm. apart and are each J^ cm. deep. Dimensions: 21 cm. (8.3 in.) 

 long; 7 cm. (2.7 in.) basal diameter. Collection of H. T. Harding, Walla Walla, 

 Wash. 



No. 2. Flat-sectioned pestle of calcareous sandstone. Tapered shaft; bulbous 

 enlargement of basal end. Cap section has shallow cleft at center. Shaped by 

 pecking with celt or hammerstone and smoothing with pumice. Dimensions: 

 16.5 cm. (6.5 in.) long; 7 cm. (2.8 in.) wide at base. Other stone pestles found 

 at Wahluke have decorative heads showing more deeply incised cleft. Cat. No. 

 333581, U.S.N.M. 



No. 3. Hand pestle pecked from native greenstone. Tapered circular walls 

 somewhat flattened at sides due to limitations in size of bowlder from which pestle 

 has been shaped. Characteristic basal section and irregularly shaped enlargement 

 at top. Found with burial offerings in grave 1. Dimensions: 18 cm. (7.1 in.) 

 long; 10 cm. (4 in.) basal diameter; diameter of head cap 5 cm. (2 in.). Cat. 

 No. 333578, U.S.N.M. 



No. 4. Hand pestle of diabase. More symmetrical in shape than No. 3. The 

 bulbous basal section is short; tapered walls are slightly convex; cap section is 

 symmetrically rounded and convexly beveled at the top. Dimensions: 16.5 cm. 

 (6.5 in.) long; 8.5 cm. (3.3 in.) in diameter at base. Cat. No. 331995, U.S.N.M. 



No. 5. Decorated head of pestle of worked diabase. Polished surface; carved 

 image of animal figure forms the cap or head section; the figure has been shaped 

 out of the solid, while features as mouth and eyes are indicated by incised lines; 

 the eye is represented by the circle and dot design. Dimensions: Diameter of 

 pestle head, 7 cm. (2.8 in.). Cat. No. 333593, U.S.N.M. 



No. 6. Cigar-shape hand pestle of smoked granodiorite. Surface symmetri- 

 cally rounded by pecking and beveled to tapering top and basal sections, with 

 greatest diameter near basal end. Similar pestles of greenstone in graves at 

 Wahluke are larger and have polished surfaces, which this pestle does not have. 

 Cat. No. 333587, U.S.N.M. Exhumed from grave 2. Dimensions: 20 cm. (7.9 

 in.) long; 6 cm. (2.4 in.) greatest diameter. 



No. 7. Small pestle of worked diabase. Pecked into a concavely beveled 

 cylinder with no basal extension or knob at the top. From grave 3. Dimen- 

 sions: 10 cm. (4 in.) long; 5 cm. (2 in.) diameter. Cat. No. 333585, U.S.N.M- 



No. 8. Small plummet-shape hand pestle of calcareous sandstone. A decora- 

 tive design of beveled encircling rings and intervening pecked grooves forms the 

 head or knob. Side walls are beveled to form a bulbous base. Dimensions: 

 12.3 era. (4.9 in.) long; 5 cm. (2 in.) wide. 



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