Road Trip
A Visit to The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum
August 2001


Mano (Hand Stone) in Fiber Carrying Bag
2000 BC - 1500 AD
Used with a metate (milling stone) to grind wild or cultivated plants and seeds.

The net carrying bag indicates how these stones were kept and carried as Native Peoples moved seasonally through a region harvesting foodstuffs.

Val Verde County, excavated by the University of Texas at Austin.
Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory (TARL),  University of Texas at Austin

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