Bark beater
Artist:
Pre-Columbian
Medium: Stone
Classification: Tools and Equipment
Credit Line: Gift of Henry Schnakenberg
Object number: 1954.22.103
DescriptionQuadrangular stone with circumferential groove on three sides. There are 13 incised grooves on the bottom; may have been used to prepare paper from bark, known as amate (from maguey plant).
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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