{"id":1831,"date":"2010-05-13T09:20:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T14:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=1831"},"modified":"2010-12-25T14:31:54","modified_gmt":"2010-12-25T19:31:54","slug":"mexican-corn-grinding-vessel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=1831","title":{"rendered":"Mexican corn grinding vessel, c.1900"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I was in Oaxaca, Mexico and saw this large wooden primitive object in an antiques shop located in the center of town. I believe it to be a type of mortar used for grinding corn. It measures about \u00a030&#8243; high with a 14&#8243; diameter and\u00a0appears to be over 100 years old.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mexico_Make_do1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1853\" title=\"Mexico_Make_do\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mexico_Make_do1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mexico_Make_do1.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mexico_Make_do1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A crack in the wood has enlarged after a metal patch was originally applied. An earlier post, &#8220;Primitive wooden shovel, c.1870&#8221; shows a similar metal patch on an American piece I own.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mexico_Make-do_21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1854\" title=\"Mexico_Make-do_2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mexico_Make-do_21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mexico_Make-do_21.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mexico_Make-do_21-291x300.jpg 291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This example, also cracked but not patched, is shown with a large pestle<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/627.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1850\" title=\"627\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/627-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/627-300x195.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/627.jpg 556w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.auctionsandservices.com\">Auctions &amp; Services Unlimited<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I was in Oaxaca, Mexico and saw this large wooden primitive object in an antiques shop located in the center of town. I believe it to be a type of mortar used for grinding corn. It measures about \u00a030&#8243; high with a 14&#8243; diameter and\u00a0appears to be over 100 years old. A crack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[152],"class_list":["post-1831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-household","tag-metal-patch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1831"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4287,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions\/4287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}