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Karen McKelvey on 12 Feb 15The Modoc used stone mortars and pestles for processing plant and animal foods. "Most large mortars were made of vesicular lava but many small one ... were of a much lighter and more porous volcanic material" (Howe 52). The Modoc also utilized a distinctive two-horned milling stone (muller) to hull wokas seeds (Kroeber 324).