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- Stick Bundle
Cultural Period: Navajo (Historic) Description: Bundle of wooden sticks, similar to a weaving batten. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 3350). - Weaving Batten
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Wooden weaving batten, broken in half and fire-blackened. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 3475). - Planting Stick
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Wooden planting stick with one end flat and pointed and the other rounded. Dimensions: 40 inches long. Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 264). - Digging Stick
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Wooden digging stick. Dimensions: 9 3/4 inches long. Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 2233). - Bundled Twigs or Grass
Description: Bundled twigs or grass stems tied with cord, perhaps for use in painting. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: Navajo National Monument. - Fighting Stick?
Description: Wooden fighting stick? Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: Navajo National Monument. - Axe Handle
Description: Prehistoric axe handle, encrusted with salt; a bit of yucca fiber tie still clings to the end. Dimensions: 7.1 cm from end, stick thinned for 17.4 cm by removal of wood from one side (55.8 x 2.6 cm). Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Agave Knife
Description: Hafted agave knife with an agave stalk handle. The stone knife blade was flaked along the edges and then pushed through the agave stalk while the stalk was still green (there are stretch cracks around the pointed end of the stone). This tool was well-used and exhibits extreme use-polish on the stone knife. Dimensions: Stalk-40.2 cm long, 4.5 cm diameter; Blade-14 x 9 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Agave Stalks
Description: Two agave stalks connected by a yucca cord. Dimensions: Each stalk is about 18 cm long. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Agave Stalk
Description: A section of agave stalk into the end of which a stick was inserted and attached to a piece of cordage. Dimensions: Approximately 15 cm long (stalk). Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Twigs Bound with Yucca Cordage
Description: Six twigs bound together with yucca cordage. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Reeds
Description: Reed, probably gathered for arrow shafts but unworked. Found loosely wrapped with a length of yucca leaf. Dimensions: L 45.8 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Arrow Foreshaft
Description: Arrow foreshaft, nearly perfect with only a bit of tip broken off, and part of reed at either end still socketing the other end of foreshaft. The foreshaft is still bound with sinew for holding the foreshaft in the shaft. Dimensions: Approximately 30.5 cm long. Collection: On display at the Montezuma Castle National Monument Visitor Center (Catalog No. MOCA 458). - Arrow Mainshaft
Description: Arrow mainshaft, made of reed grass (Phragmites communis) with a notched end and three split feathers intact and still wrapped with sinew. The other end and wooden foreshaft are missing. Dimensions: 16 inches long. Collection: On display at the Montezuma Castle National Monument Visitor Center (Catalog No. 457). - Split Feather Detail
Description: Close view of the sinew wrapped split feathers on MOCA 457, an arrow mainshaft. Collection: On display at the Montezuma Castle National Monument Visitor Center (Catalog No. MOCA 457).