| 11. | In its early use in the American Southwest, the mano and metate were used to grind wild plants.
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| 12. | Another type of metate, called a grinding slab, may also be found among boulder or exposed bedrock outcroppings.
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| 13. | This particular form of metate seems to have been influenced by the stone sculptures of the Panamanian site of Barriles.
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| 14. | Once the corn has softened, it is washed and then ground, three times, with a mano and metate.
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| 15. | Some examples characterized as metate might have actually been a type of throne for sitting on not a metate at all.
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| 16. | Some examples characterized as metate might have actually been a type of throne for sitting on not a metate at all.
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| 17. | Many of the statues and the metate are on currently display in the Museo Antropol�gico Reina Torres de Ara�z in Panama City.
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| 18. | Carved from a single piece of stone, these metate typically contain multiple figures, both underneath the plate and on the legs.
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| 19. | They were parched with hot coals, then ground on a metate; the resulting food had a peanut butter-like consistency.
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| 20. | The pigments are ground into a powder using a metate grinding stone, then mixed with clay to make a milky fluid paint.
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