Bringen Sie Ihre Auktion zu Sammlern weltweit!
Jetzt eintragen lassenMit der Anmeldung stimmen Sie der Datenschutzrichtlinie zu. Jederzeit abmelden.
Barnebys HQ
Brahegatan 10
BOX 5038
114 37 Stockholm
Alle Auktionen / Skulpturen / Large Prehistoric Anasazi / Hohokam Stone Mano
Native American, Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) or Hohokam. A long loaf of dense gray stone, worn smooth by generations of grinding, this is a mano ("hand" in Spanish), the upper stone of the paired mano and metate that fed the ancient Southwest. Its unusual length indicates a two-hand mano, gripped at both ends and driven in a reciprocating stroke across a trough metate to reduce maize, seeds, and wild grains to meal. One face carries the flattened, faintly abraded wear of long use; the opposite curve retains the pecked, granular texture of the original cobble. Utilitarian objects of this kind sat at the center of household life in Pueblo and Hohokam villages, where the grinding room and its bins were as much a social space as a working one. Deceptively plain, and shaped almost entirely by labor rather than design. The shift from one-hand to two-hand manos in the American Southwest tracks the intensification of maize agriculture. Longer manos paired with trough metates increased the working surface and the throughput of the grind, and ethnographic and archaeological evidence alike show women working in sequences of bins holding progressively finer abrasive stones, moving the meal from coarse to fine. Estimates drawn from Puebloan contexts suggest hours of daily grinding per household, a labor cost visible in the skeletal record and in the mano itself: the flattened face here is the sum of thousands of strokes. This item may fall under the Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony (STOP) Act or other federal laws protecting Native American, Alaska Native, or Native Hawaiian cultural heritage. As such, it is not eligible for international shipping, and may also be subject to repatriation or tribal consultation within the United States. Buyers are responsible for ensuring their legal right to acquire, possess, or transfer this item under all applicable laws. This lot cannot be shipped outside the United States. Item # 202171
Schätzpreis:€267.45
Zur AuktionAlle Objekte ansehen vonArtemis Fine ArtsoderSkulpturen
Schätzpreis:
€267.45
OCT 8 | 3:00 PM
OCT 8 | 3:00 PM
Bringen Sie Ihre Auktion zu Sammlern weltweit!
Jetzt eintragen lassen
