92 MORTARS AND PESTLES. 



California coast, and are more numerous than the mortars. Particularly is 

 this true of the smaller kind and those of comparatively rude finish. The 

 largest and hest finished were found at Dos Pueblos and La Patera, and 

 these have been selected for the illustrations. 



My attention has been called to a small book,* in which the author, 

 on page 62 et seq., endeavors, to show that some of the large pestles found 

 in California are emblems of phallic worship. He considers the pestle as a 

 phallus, and a round, shallow mortar, figured in the text, as representing 

 the yoni or female organ. 



It is hardly necessary to add that such deductions are simply ridiculous, 

 and, even should we find pestles, or other articles, so carved as to represent 

 the male organ, they might well be considered simply as examples of savage 

 obscenity or fantasy. 



* | Tie | Masculine Cross | and | Aneieut Sex Worship | by ShaRocco | New York : | Asa K. Butis 

 & Co., 36 Dey Street | 1874. | 



