- Stone Beads
Subject: Stone beads. Date: 1933-1934 Collection: Tuzigoot National Monument. - Beads
Description: Turquoise and coral beads or pendants from a cache of vessels found near the Boucher Trail. Dimensions: Unknown. Provenience: B:16:233 (GRCA); Boucher Trail Cache. Collection: Grand Canyon National Park (Catalog No. GRCA 34974-34976). - Stone Bead
One of the artifacts recovered from the hearth of the pit house was this stone bead. Sediment still clings to the bead, which was likely made of steatite, a soft stone commonly used for beads in the prehistoric northern Southwest. - Close-up of Shell Beads
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Shell necklace. Provenience unknown. Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument. - Argillite Stone Bead
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Red-orange (argillite) perforated stone bead. Provenience: Unknown. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Irregular Turquoise Bead
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Irregularly-shaped perforated turquoise bead. Provenience: Unknown. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - White Stone Bead
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: White perforated stone bead. Provenience: Unknown. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Light Green Stone Bead
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Light green perforated stone bead. Provenience: Unknown. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Argillite Stone Bead
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Red-orange (argillite) perforated stone bead. Provenience: Unknown. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Turquoise Bead or Pendant Fragment
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Wedge-shaped turquoise bead or pendant fragment from Atsinna Pueblo. Dimensions: DIAM 0.5, T 0.3 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Surface. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Rectangular Stone Pendant
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Rectangular stone pendant from Atsinna Pueblo, perforated, missing a small portion from the top margin, and bearing a chip on one lateral margin. Dimensions: L 1.3, W 1.1, T 0.3 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Surface. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Olivella Shell Beads
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Olivella shell beads displaying various degrees of weathering from the surface of Atsinna Pueblo. Dimensions: L 1.0, DIAM 0.5 CM - L 1.6, DIAM 0.7 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Surface. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Tubular Stone Bead
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Tubular black stone (steatite) bead from Atsinna Pueblo. The bead was biconically perforated, smoothed, and ground on the ends. Dimensions: L 1.6, DIAM 0.9 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Room 20, Floor & 1 Foot above. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Disk Bead Fragment
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Drilled turquoise or chrysocolla disk bead fragment from Atsinna Pueblo. Dimensions: DIAM 0.9, T 0.1. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Room 20, Floor & 1 Foot Above. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Turquoise Bead
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Biconically perforated turquoise disk bead from Atsinna Pueblo. Dimensions: DIAM 0.6, T 0.1 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Room 15, Floor. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro.