Piki is a bread made from blue corn meal used in Hopi cuisine.
Piki bread at a hotel restaurant in Santa Fe, New Mexico
A metate is a type or variety of quern, a ground stone tool used for processing grain and seeds. In traditional Mesoamerican cultures, metates are typically used by women who would grind nixtamalized
Piki
…Piki is a bread made from blue corn meal used in Hopi cuisine. Blue corn, a staple grain of the Hopi, is first reduced to a fine powder on a metate. It is then mixed with water and burnt ashes of native bushes or juniper trees for purposes of nixtamalization (nutritional modification of corn by…
Metate, mano and corn, all circa 12th century AD, from Chaco Canyon, USA
Mano, metate and bowl of corn. Museum display of Ancestral Pueblo artifacts at Mesa Verde National Park.
A Costa Rican metate with bird iconography at the Birmingham Museum of Art.
A native American grinder stone tool or 'metate' from Central Mexico.