- Metate
Description: Overturned large metate lying on the floor of a room in Nalakihu Pueblo. Date: 1933-1934. Collection: Wupatki National Monument (Catalog No. WUPA 19845). - New Roof
Description: Crew reconstructing roof at Wupatki Pueblo, 1933-34. They are attempting to use native materials that would match the original materials used in construction of the pueblo in the 12th or 13th centuries AD. In the 1930s, the Museum of Northern Arizona reconstructed the newly-excavated Wupatki Pueblo by rebuilding walls to their presumed original heights and adding roofs to the rooms. For a while in the 1930s and 1940s, a few of the rooms served as the residence for the Wupatki NPS ranger and his wife. The practice of rebuilding pueblos was discontinued in the 1950s, and the reconstructed portions of walls and roofs were removed. The condition of Wupatki today is similar to how it appeared when first excavated in the 1930s and again in the 1950s. Date: 1930s. Collection: Wupatki National Monument (Catalog No. WUPA 20074). - Test Trenches
Description: Test trenches through the ballcourt at Wupatki Pueblo. Date: 1960s. Collection: Wupatki National Monument (Catalog No. WUPA 24362). - Cross-Section of the Ballcourt Wall
Description: View looking north across cross-section trench through west wall (berm) of Wupatki Ballcourt. Clearly visible are the layers used in constructing the ballcourt walls. Black cinders, undoubtedly from the Sunset Crater eruption, form the core of the wall. A mixture of earth and sandstone slabs have been applied over and around the cinders to stabilize the berm. The interior of the court was finished with a veneer of carefully-laid sandstone slabs interspersed with occasional basalt boulders. Date: ca. 1965. Collection: Wupatki National Monument (Catalog No. WUPA 24237).