Re-Worked Bowl/Mortar

[Missouri Breaks]

Happy Friday all! Been posting some stuff lately but I’m still relatively new here. From California with ancestry pertinent to my lifelong interest in artifacts from Hume, Missouri and it’s one of my favorite films. I hope to visit Montana one day to see the breaks. Hence- Missouri Breaks.
Here’s something you don’t see every day from the property I grew up on. The people there reworked just about every type of point and blade as well as repurposing other broken tools so why not do the same with a bowl. The mortar must’ve broken in half or was worked about all the way through over the years and then about one half of it was used to creat another grinding bowl in what had been a side.

 

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[eyemustdigtreasure]

Great Find, and nice call...!
The re-worked part, may have been a "Hopper Mortar",
where a bottom-less basket kept all the stuff the lady was
pounding and grinding on, concentrated in one spot - more efficient that way....

 

[Tesorodeoro]

Happy Friday all! Been posting some stuff lately but I’m still relatively new here. From California with ancestry pertinent to my lifelong interest in artifacts from Hume, Missouri and it’s one of my favorite films. I hope to visit Montana one day to see the breaks. Hence- Missouri Breaks.
Here’s something you don’t see every day from the property I grew up on. The people there reworked just about every type of point and blade as well as repurposing other broken tools so why not do the same with a bowl. The mortar must’ve broken in half or was worked about all the way through over the years and then about one half of it was used to creat another grinding bowl in what had been a side.

Thanks for the introduction and sharing that awesome artifact.

 

[Garscale]

How cool is that! Great find.

 

[Tdog]

Very nice piece. Thanks.

 

[Missouri Breaks]

Oh I see, yes probably it was something like that.

 

[old digger]

Nice Find!
If you head up to the breaks make sure to check out the ''Hard Pans" between the sagebrush.

 

[Missouri Breaks]

Thanks for the tip. I have two cousins in The Yaak so a trip to MT is on my list.

 

[outlaws15]

Now I know where my folks got the life style of keeping everything and trying to work with broken stuff. My folks were not foolish, if a piece was broken they would wonder if there is a way to use it again or for something else b4 finally giving up and putting it aside. Aside meant garage or attic. Somethings found a trash can.

Happy Friday all! Been posting some stuff lately but I’m still relatively new here. From California with ancestry pertinent to my lifelong interest in artifacts from Hume, Missouri and it’s one of my favorite films. I hope to visit Montana one day to see the breaks. Hence- Missouri Breaks.
Here’s something you don’t see every day from the property I grew up on. The people there reworked just about every type of point and blade as well as repurposing other broken tools so why not do the same with a bowl. The mortar must’ve broken in half or was worked about all the way through over the years and then about one half of it was used to creat another grinding bowl in what had been a side.

 

[eyemustdigtreasure]

Now I know where my folks got the life style of keeping everything and trying to work with broken stuff. My folks were not foolish, if a piece was broken they would wonder if there is a way to use it again or for something else b4 finally giving up and putting it aside. Aside meant garage or attic. Somethings found a trash can.

Right, and re-working broken stuff....sound familiar...? Yep, I'm the one to fix, rather than throw away...!
Back in the old days, stuff wasn't in a Walmart somewhere, but there, right in front of you,
where you just recovered a shot arrow, but the point was damaged - but, it can be fixed, and still be usable...!
Times were tough, mostly, but you carried your tools with you, and used your head and all that was taught to you....!