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- Navajo Saddle Blanket
Cultural Period: Historic, Navajo Description: Red Navajo saddle blanket with black double diamond design in center. Provenience: Unknown. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Gourd Container
Description: A small gourd "paint pot" with a yucca fiber stopper, found with yellow-brown paint powder inside. Dimensions: Approximately 13 cm long; body of gourd 6.5 cm wide. Collection: On display at the Montezuma Castle National Monument Visitor Center (Catalog No. MOCA 149). - Yucca Fiber Stopper
Description: Close view of the yucca stopper in MOCA 149, a gourd paint container. Collection: On display at the Montezuma Castle National Monument Visitor Center (Catalog No. 149). - Twisted Fibers
Description: Strands of twisted weaving elements, one of which is much finer than the others. Dimensions: L 10.2 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Flintknapper's Hide Palm
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: "Flintknappers' palm" - Double thick stitched hide used to protect the palm of the hand from injury when producing stone tools. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 626). - Scarlet Macaw Feathers
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Scarlet Macaw feathers bound together with yucca and cotton. Dimensions: 2 3/4 inch diameter (the opening in the center is just large enough to fit a lead pencil tip). Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 37). - Scarlet Macaw Feathers, Alternate View
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Scarlet Macaw feathers bound together with yucca and cotton. Dimensions: 2 3/4 inch diameter (the opening in the center is just large enough to fit a lead pencil tip). Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 37).