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An editorial illustration of an empty cowhide vat hanging below a roughly rectangular timber frame, with pale fiber lashing around the irregular rim.
Equipment

Suspended cowhide mezcal fermenter

A hide stretched over a timber support forms an open, hanging basin for agave fermentation. Contemporary accounts document examples in Puebla and Oaxaca; the sources do not establish the form's pre-contact chronology.

Skins and bladders
Puebla
Illustration of an Amis areca-leaf sheath vessel containing broth, leafy greens and a heated andesite stone.
Equipment

Stone-boiling vessel

Stone boiling heats food in a vessel with stones warmed separately in a fire. Amis leaf sheaths, Chinantec jícaras and Northwest Coast cooking baskets are distinct regional forms, not one universal pot.

stone-boiling-vessel
Eastern Taiwan
An illustrated two-part fired-clay mezcal still over a small wood fire, with a copper cooling pan above.
Equipment

Clay-pot still for mezcal

A fired-clay vessel assembly used to distil fermented agave must in several Mexican mezcal traditions. Its arrangement varies by region and producer; the sources document both clay or wooden vapour passages and particular cooling vessels.

Jars, pots and crocks
Oaxaca