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- Community Room
The reconstructed circular structure below you resembles a great kiva, a special room used for rituals and ceremonies. However, excavators found no evidence of a roof or other floor features typical of a kiva. Archeologists speculate that this open-air community room could have served as a central gathering place. Imagine voices carrying to others assembled on the pueblo roof tops. People may have come from nearby and distant villages to participate in ceremonies held here. Maybe rituals focused the community and solved problems, or served to redistribute materials and food. - Chaco-style Tusayan Black-on-white Cylinder Jar
Rotate Description: Tusayan Black-on-white mug fashioned after Chacoan cylinder jars. Collection: Museum of Northern Arizona, Wupatki. - Big Pots
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan/Cohonina/Kayenta Description: Intact prehistoric pottery is an extremely rare find. These vessels were uncovered in February 2009 from deep cinder deposits. The pot on the left is a Cohonina-style vessel, while the pot on the right is Kayenta-style. The date ranges for the two pottery types overlap between A.D. 1075-1125, allowing archaeologists to estimate when these pots were made, used, and buried together. Collection: These pots are on loan from the U.S. Forest Service to the National Park Service for the enjoyment of visitors at Wupatki National Monument. - Stone Hoe
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Stone hoe made from a hard basalt. Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument. - Puebloan Knife
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Bifacial Pueblo-period knife made from agatized wood and found in Wupatki Pueblo. Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument (catalog card - Fire Stick Fragment and Hearth Board
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan (Wupatki Pueblo, A.D. 1130 – A.D. 1260) Description: This hearth board and wooden fire drill would have been been used together to create fire by friction such as that caused when using a bow drill. Dimensions: (hearth board) 9.1 cm long (3.58 in); (drill) 6.0 (L) x 1.8 (diameter) cm (2.36 x 0.71 in). Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument (catalog cards - hearth, drill). - Awls
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Bone awls fashioned from animal long bones. Hundreds of similar awls, made largely from the leg bones of pronghorn antelope, were found in Wupatki Pueblo. Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument. - Obsidian Point
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan/Sinagua Description: Obsidian projectile point manufactured in the Sinagua fashion. Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument. - Cotton Cloth
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan and Hohokam Description: (left)weft wrap, open-weave cotton cloth recovered from the Wupatki Pueblo trash midden; (right) plain-weave cotton cloth dyed red. The North Country is too cold for cotton to grow, so the cloth, or the cotton from which it was woven, was likely traded to the Sinagua by their southern neighbors, the Hohokam. Dimensions: (left) 8 cm x 4.5 cm x 0.1 cm; (right) 14.0 cm x 12.5 cm. Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument (catalog card 1, catalog card 2). - Copper Bells from Mexico
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Copper bells in the Southwest originated in Mesoamerica. Unfortunately, the provenience information for these particular bells is currently unknown. Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument (catalog card 1, catalog card 2). - Nose Plugs
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan (Wupatki Pueblo, A.D. 1130 – A.D. 1260) Description: (top) limestone nose plug from Wupatki Pueblo; (bottom) red argillite nose plug from Wupatki Pueblo. Men wore these nose plugs through a pierced septum. Dimensions: (top) 3.7 cm (H) x 2.2 cm (W) x 1.7 cm (T); (bottom) 0.7 in. Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument (catalog card 1, catalog card 2). - Cohonina Points
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan/Cohonina Description: Black point: Obsidian projectile point manufactured in the Cohonina style. This point was found in the trash on the west side of Wupatki Pueblo. Opaque point: Cohonina-style chalcedony projectile point or drill from Wupatki Pueblo. Dimensions: (black) 1.2L x 0.4W x 0.1T cm (0.47 x 0.16 x 0.04 in); (opaque) 45.0L x 9.0W x 2.0T mm (1.77 x 0.35 x 0.08 in). Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument (catalog card 1, catalog card 2). - Sinagua points
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan/Sinagua Description: Black point on the left: Obsidian projectile point manufactured in the Sinagua fashion. This point was found across the wash from Wupatki Pueblo. Opaque point on the right: Side-notched chert projectile point manufactured in a Sinagua style. This point was found in the trash on the west side of Wupatki Pueblo. Dimensions: (black): 2.7L x 1.5W cm (1.06 x 0.59 in); (opaque): 1.3L x 0.6W cm (0.51 x 0.024 in). Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument (catalog card 1, catalog card 2). - Kayenta Points
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan/Kayenta Description: Left: Basally notched projectile point manufactured on chert in the Kayenta style. This point was found on a mesita west of Crack-in-Rock Road. Right: Kayenta-style projectile point manufactured on brown chert and found in Wupatki Pueblo. Dimensions: (left) 3.6L x 1.6W x 0.31T cm (1.42 x 0.63 x 0.12 in); (right)3.3L x 1.8W x 0.4T cm (1.3 x 0.71 x 0.16 in). Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument ("http://swvirtualmuseum.nau.edu/docs/Wupatki/WUPA5263.pdf" >catalog card 1, catalog card 2). - A Question of Rights