Metate

wfeller

For hundreds if not thousands of years, the Yharetum, the People of the Pines, would sort their way through the thick hardwood forest of the mountain highlands to gather acorns and pine nuts. While the men would hunt deer, the woman would take their bounty and pound it into meal within the deep holes embedded in the boulders. The People are gone now, and the metate these women used sit lonely in the forest, serving only water provided by the snow melt and early spring rains to small birds looking for a sip in the cover of the now overgrown brush.

kdog

Nice shot, and informative post!!

Cheers,
-joel

Eia

The star draws me right to the metate. Great capture of the sun on the first metate. Wonderful story with it too.

Awais Yaqub

Nice photo and interesting text
thanks for sharing !

wfeller

kdog wrote:

Nice shot, and informative post!!

Cheers,
-joel

Thank you. I'm developing both the text and image for inclusion in the Serrano Indian ethnology section on my web site.

wfeller

Eia wrote:

The star draws me right to the metate. Great capture of the sun on the first metate. Wonderful story with it too.

Thanks. I took my 14-year old grandaughter with me on this one. She only shared a half a sandwich and a half a cookie out of her lunch for my trouble. There were two sets of these. She found this one as I was packing to leave.

wfeller

Awais Yaqub wrote:

Nice photo and interesting text
thanks for sharing !

Thank you!

dlplumer

Very interesting Walter

wfeller

dlplumer wrote:

Very interesting Walter

Thank you.

Art Scott

very well done, really like the backstory also......
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I did a GOOGLe on Yharetum and only found a link to this thread.....so where are they from.....are they an offshoot of a recognized tribe.....etc etc