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- Projectile Point with Missing Base
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Medial fragment of a possible projectile point with irregular notching along both margins; made on a tan and white mottled chert. The basal portion is missing. According to Ashlee Bailey, Northern Arizona University graduate student in Anthropology, the point is morphologically similar to San Pedro or San Jose points. Dimensions: L 4.6, W 2.2, T 0.6 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Room 17, Fill. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - "Annex" Reconstruction
Subject: Reconstructing the "Annex." Date: January 5, 1934 Collection: Tuzigoot National Monument. - "Falling Man"
Description: "Falling Man" in Nine Pine Cove. Date: June 9, 2010 - "Loom Anchor"
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Gray-slipped, unfired “loom anchor.” Such an object might have been used to weigh down wefts during weaving; however, this technique is not known for the prehistoric Southwest, so this artifact likely served a different function. Dimensions: L 4.9, DIAM 4.2 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Room 20, Floor & 1 foot above. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - "Loom Anchor"
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Gray-slipped, unfired “loom anchor.” Such an object might have been used to weigh down wefts during weaving; however, this technique is not known for the prehistoric Southwest, so this artifact likely served a different function. Dimensions: L 5.6, DIAM 4.1 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Room 20, Floor & 1 foot above. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - "Loom Anchor"
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Gray-slipped, unfired “loom anchor.” Such an object might have been used to weigh down wefts during weaving; however, this technique is not known for the prehistoric Southwest, so this artifact likely served a different function. Dimensions: L 5.2, DIAM 3.9 CM Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Room 20, Floor & 1 foot above Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - "Loom Anchor" Fragment
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Gray-slipped, unfired “loom anchor.” Such an object might have been used to weigh down wefts during weaving; however, this technique is not known for the prehistoric Southwest, so this artifact likely served a different function. Dimensions: L 5.0, DIAM 3.5 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Room 20, Fill. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - "Loom Anchor" Fragment, Alternate View
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Gray-slipped, unfired “loom anchor.” Such an object might have been used to weigh down wefts during weaving; however, this technique is not known for the prehistoric Southwest, so this artifact likely served a different function. Dimensions: L 5.0, DIAM 3.5 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Room 20, Fill. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - "Snow Bowl Last Astronaut Stop"
Description: A newspaper clipping from 1963 (the handwritten date is incorrect) picturing the "New Nine" at Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument's Ice Cave. Collection: Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument. - "Squeezed" Clay
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Crudely shaped, unevenly squeezed clay/ceramic object with one end twisted off and the other slightly tapered with a small central hole. Dimensions: L 4.8, DIAM 1.9 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Refuse mound, Test 2, fill. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - "Stone Bar or Bell"
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Large cylindrical artifact described in the artifact catalog as a “stone bar or bell” and a “digging tool/pestle?” with a ground, pecked surface and one flat side. The catalog indicated the material is gneiss, most likely from near Mt. Sedgwick to the north. Dimensions: L 48.9, W 8.9, T 5.6 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 1-S, E CACHE. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - "Stone Bar or Bell," Alternate View
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Large cylindrical artifact described in the artifact catalog as a “stone bar or bell” and a “digging tool/pestle?” with a ground, pecked surface and one flat side. The catalog indicated the material is gneiss, most likely from near Mt. Sedgwick to the north. Dimensions: L 48.9, W 8.9, T 5.6 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 1-S, E CACHE. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - "Thumb Handle Cup"
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Red-slipped ceramic “thumb handle cup” or jar finger hold with ground edges. Dimensions: DIAM 4.4, D 2.2 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Room 18, Fill. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - "Thumb Handle Cup," Alternate View
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Red-slipped ceramic “thumb handle cup” or jar finger hold with ground edges. Dimensions: DIAM 4.4, D 2.2 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Room 18, Fill. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - "Trainee Astronauts Complete Lunar Studies, Embark by Plane for Home"
Description: A 1963 newspaper clipping tells of the adventures of the "New Nine" at Sunset Crater and Meteor Crater. The experience was only the beginning of the Apollo training at Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument. Collection: Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument.