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Handled mortar

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Handled mortar. (Swope collection.) Length 10¾″

Lateral and top views of one of the characteristic forms of small stone mortars with a handled projection on one side is shown in figure. This specimen is in the Swope collection in the Deming High School. In the same collection there are also two beautiful tubular pipes, or cloud-blowers, from the same spring.