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Metate.

Crafted and cared for by Ancient hands.

The women who ground cornmeal on this have been dust for hundreds of years.


I found it this morning, surfacing out of the edge of an arroyo next to one of our milo fields. I like to think the vermilion color of the seed heads comes from the vanished blood of ghostly buffalo......but then I probably spend too much time alone in open country. (Which would also explain why sometimes I think the original owners of lost objects lead you to them.)