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- Corrugated Jar with Coiled Fillets, Alternate View
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Reconstructed smeared corrugated with two coiled fillets at the shoulder. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Rm 7, Floor fill. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Palette with Red Hematite
Description: Palette with eight incised shallow notches along one edge. The hematite has been added to show how the palette would have been used. Dimensions of palette: 10.8 x 3.2 x 1.3 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card - palette, catalog card - hematite). - Palette with Specular Hematite
Description: Slate palette with an incised border. A piece of unworked specular hematite was placed with the palette to show how the artifact would have been used in the past. Dimensions of palette: 13.5 x 8.4 x .8 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card - palette, catalog card - hematite). - Mortar with Malachite Pieces
Description: Pumice paint mortar with unworked malachite pieces. Dimensions: 3.7 cm tall, 6.3 cm diameter. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card - mortar, catalog card - malachite). - Mortar with Limonite
Description: Stone paint mortar with limonite. Dimensions: 3.7 cm tall, 6.3 cm diameter. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card - mortar, catalog card - limonite). - Palette with Azurite
Description: Incised palette with an azurite lump used to make a ground powder paste. Dimensions: 8.2 x 14.6 x 2.4 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card - palette, catalog card - azurite). - Mogollon style corrugated jar
Brown jars with indented corrugated patterns like this are characteristic of the Mogollon culture area to the north and east of the Safford Basin. - Crushed Red Ochre
Description: Miniature Verde Brown bowl with coarsely crushed red ochre. Dimensions: Height 1.3, Diameter 3.5 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card - bowl, catalog card - ochre). - Mortar with White Pigment
Description: Basalt mortar with a white pigment tentatively identified as kaolin powder. Dimensions: 1.25 inches tall, 2.75 inch diameter. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card - mortar, catalog card - pigment). - Chiricahua-style Point
Cultural Period: Archaic (Middle Archaic, 4,800 - 2,500 BP) Description: This projectile point was made from translucent white chalcedony and found near Doney Peak in Wupatki National Monument. Dimensions: 2.85 (L) x 1.95 (W) x 0.35 (T) cm (1.12 x 0.77 x 0.14 in). Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument (catalog card). - Gila Polychrome Eccentric Jar
This jar is especially interesting, as both its shape and its painted decoration indicate a strong connection between its maker and the ancient people who inhabited the Kayenta area of northeastern Arizona. Archaeologists refer to this vessel form a “submarine pot” or a “football pot” and assume that such objects were used as canteens. Vessels of this shape were absent from central and southern Arizona before the depopulation of parts of northeastern Arizona by the people archaeologists refer to as the Kayenta culture. When Kayenta groups moved southward, they contributed much to the ceramic tradition associated with the Salado archaeological phenomenon. The northerners brought their native vessel shapes, vessel manufacturing techniques, and also painted design styles. The vessel in this photograph bears the characteristic “Kayenta bat-wing design” brought to southern Arizona by ancient immigrants. - San Carlos Red-on-brown jar
This jar bears the color scheme and a painted decoration characteristic of Hohokam pottery found throughout southern Arizona, but clues indicating how it was made and the raw materials used to make it reveal that it was produced in the Safford Basin during the 1300s. - Clovis Point
View with Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) Description: The Desert View Clovis point. This projectile point, made of Narbona Pass (formerly Washington Pass) chert, is one of only a few Paleoindian points found in the Grand Canyon. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: Grand Canyon National Park. - Prescott Black-on-Gray with Mend Hole and Cotton String
Description: A Prescott Black-on-Gray bowl rim sherd mended prehistorically by drilling a hole from the exterior. The S-twist cotton string is original and would have joined the hole in this sherd to a matching mend hole in the vessel. Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.3 x 0.7 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Mogollon style corrugated jar
Brown jars with indented corrugated patterns like this are characteristic of the Mogollon culture area to the north and east of the Safford Basin.