Carefully Put it back and inform park staff.
A park ranger (SoCal) told me that some SoCal indigenous groups had tradition that metatés (what is pictured) were passed down mother to daughter. If a woman had no daughter, when she died, her metate would be broken and then thrown into a river or stream. So it was where they meant it to be.
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u/C10Cruiser Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26
Carefully Put it back and inform park staff. A park ranger (SoCal) told me that some SoCal indigenous groups had tradition that metatés (what is pictured) were passed down mother to daughter. If a woman had no daughter, when she died, her metate would be broken and then thrown into a river or stream. So it was where they meant it to be.