Published Pre-Columbian Nicoya Ceremonial Stone Seat, Ex Arizona Museum
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Even today, stone metates in the Americas are used to grind maize and other foodstuffs in this volcanic stone.
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Metlapil - Volcanic stone carved sculpture
By La muerte tiene permiso
Located in London, GB
Metlapil is part of Metates a work composed of two volcanic stone sculptures that explore wear as the trace of a relationship: between objects, between people, between time and matt...
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Rueda - Volcanic stone carved sculpture
By La muerte tiene permiso
Located in London, GB
Rueda is part of Metates a work composed of two volcanic stone sculptures that explore wear as the trace of a relationship: between objects, between people, between time and matter.
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Rare 18th Century Mexican Metate y Mano
Located in San Francisco, CA
This large and impressive 18th / 19th century Mexican 'metate y mano' (grinding slab and grinding stone) is hand chiseled, carved and shaped from volcanic rock.
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Costa Rican Metate, circa 300-700 AD
Located in Paris, ile de france
A Costa Rican Metate circa 300-700 AD, the Volcanic stone implement carved in bold relief to depict 3 standing zoomorphic crocodiles figures ,emerging from each of the tripod colum...
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Tulum Large Antique Metate De Piedra, 19th Century
Located in Melville, NY
19th century hand carved metate de Piedra from Tulum. Beautifully aged & patinated. *This item cannot be returned.
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Large Pre-Columbian Stone Metate
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Carved stone ceremonial tripod Metate. Made in Costa Rica circa 900 to 1400 AD.
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Antique Grinding Stone from Mexico
Located in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato
Antique "metate" or grinding stone from Puebla highlands. 5 of these pieces were found buried and partially uncovered by one of my runners in that region.
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Rare Pre-columbian Ceremonial Stone Metate
Located in San Francisco, CA
This intricately carved metate from coarse gray stone has a convex, rectangular workbench and is supported by three openwork legs, the whole highlighted by a pair of carved openwork ...
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Moonumental Nahua Sculpture Three Piece Ceramic
Located in Los Angeles, CA
As can be seen there are multiple every day life scene all over the woman, her grinding stone or "metate" and the elongated stone for grinding "mano del metate" Amazingly, both the w...