I've showed my stuff on here before, but that was a long time ago, but don't remember if the bowls or metates (that's what I call the flat ones, don't know it that is the proper name) were shown at that time. I know I showed some points and my railroad pot in the past. Anyhow, here are some, I have others out in the yard that I'll have to take pictures of.
View attachment 712394View attachment 712395View attachment 712396View attachment 712397View attachment 712398Each one of these has a story behind it, and I don't have the time or patience right now to get real involved with stories. However the flat "matates" came from Nevada. I was working on a ranch that the gas company put a pipe line across, and in an area that didn't have a rock large enough to kill a rattlesnake, they dug up three metates and a bunch of manos, which is what I call the flat stone that they rubbed on the matate to grind their seeds. The other bowls for the most part came from property I owned, or was owned by my family. The bowls would be Chumash, coming from the vicinity of San Luis Obispo, California. My great great grand parents filed a homestead on some land there in 1867, some of the bowls were plowed up on that place, and those fields are now under pavement and a shopping center. I didn't think to put something in the photo for scale, and I've got more stuff, maybe I'll start a different thread to show those with a ruler for scale. The bowls and metates are for the most part quite large. Anyhow, if that flat river rock those guys sold on TV is really worth $600, then I must have some big bucks here. Shucks, I've given away bowls that were way better than what they sold on TV.
