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- Worked Black-on-red Sherd
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Worked rectangular black-on-red sherd with rounded edges. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Refuse mound, Test 3, 40-50 CM. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Whiteware or Grayware Pitcher, Handle Detail
Cultural Period: Native American, Period Unknown Description: Early whiteware or plainware pitcher with a possibly faint painted spiral at the shoulder (catalog description). Provenience: In or near El Morro National Monument. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Whiteware or Grayware Pitcher
Cultural Period: Native American, Period Unknown Description: Early whiteware or plainware pitcher with a possibly faint painted spiral at the shoulder (catalog description). Provenience: In or near El Morro National Monument. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Water Jar, Alternate View
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Reconstructed glaze-on-cream water jar. Barbara Mills, Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of Arizona, indicates that the designs are Heshothauthla-like, but that overall, the jar is a bit odd. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 1, 0-100 CM. Note: This vessel could have come from either Room 1-N or Room 1-S. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Water Jar
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Reconstructed glaze-on-cream water jar. Barbara Mills, Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of Arizona, indicates that the designs are Heshothauthla-like, but that overall, the jar is a bit odd. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 1, 0-100 CM. Note: This vessel could have come from either Room 1-N or Room 1-S. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Variety of Worked Sherds
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Seven worked sherds, including black-on-red, glaze-on-red, and whiteware. One is sub-rectangular with the edges flaked, three have ground edges, one is flaked and ground around the jar finger-hold circumference, and the remaining two are flaked and ground around the outside edges. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 17, Fill. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Unfired Miniature Vessel, Alternate View
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Miniature vessel, possible a duck pot, but missing the head. Unfired. Dimensions: H 1.7, DIAM 3.5 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Rm 17, Fill. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Unfired Miniature Vessel
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Miniature vessel, possible a duck pot, but missing the head. Unfired. Dimensions: H 1.7, DIAM 3.5 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Rm 17, Fill. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Unfired Miniature Jar, Alternate View
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Unfired miniature jar with a flat bottom. Dimensions: H 1.5, DIAM 2.8 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Room 17, Fill. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Unfired Miniature Jar
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Unfired miniature jar with a flat bottom. Dimensions: H 1.5, DIAM 2.8 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Room 17, Fill. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Unfired Duck Effigy (?), Alternate View
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Unfired egg-shaped piece of clay with a punched hole in the top and a small bulbous protrusion on one end interpreted as the head of a duck in the artifact catalog. Dimensions: H 2.0, W 2.5, L 3.5 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Room 17, Fill. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Unfired Duck Effigy (?)
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Unfired egg-shaped piece of clay with a punched hole in the top and a small bulbous protrusion on one end interpreted as the head of a duck in the artifact catalog. Dimensions: H 2.0, W 2.5, L 3.5 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Room 17, Fill. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - St Johns Black-on-red Jar, Alternate View
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: This pot is described in the artifact catalog as a St Johns Black-on-red with an out-turned rim; decorated with wide band and dots on the interior; rim edge painted; and body decorated in the St Johns – Tularosa style with the base undecorated. According to the catalog, the paint is sub-glaze in places, indicating a relatively late St Johns. According to Barbara Mills, Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of Arizona, you see the same design on Reserve/Tularosa Black-on-white and you get it over a wide area in the thirteenth century, almost to the Rio Grande, especially south of Acoma, to Socorro, and west to the White Mountains. Even in the upper San Francisco River area, you will find this design. Dimensions: H 12.3, DIAM 15.0 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), ROOM 12, FLOOR. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - St Johns Black-on-red Jar
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: This pot is described in the artifact catalog as a St Johns Black-on-red with an out-turned rim; decorated with wide band and dots on the interior; rim edge painted; and body decorated in the St Johns – Tularosa style with the base undecorated. According to the catalog, the paint is sub-glaze in places, indicating a relatively late St Johns. According to Barbara Mills, Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of Arizona, you see the same design on Reserve/Tularosa Black-on-white and you get it over a wide area in the thirteenth century, almost to the Rio Grande, especially south of Acoma, to Socorro, and west to the White Mountains. Even in the upper San Francisco River area, you will find this design. Dimensions: H 12.3, DIAM 15.0 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), ROOM 12, FLOOR. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Seed Jar, Alternate View
Cultural Period: Native American, Unknown Period Description: Heavily eroded polychrome seed jar with a hole in the bottom. Described as possibly historic, from the Zuni Area, in the artifact catalog. Dimensions: H 5 ½, DIAM 8 ¼ Inches. Provenience: In or near El Morro National Monument. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro.