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- Style II Bowl
Description: Style II bowl. Collection: Museum of Northern Arizona. - Style II Bowl
Description: Style II bowl. Collection: Museum of Northern Arizona. - Style II Bird Effigy
Description: Mimbres Style II bird effigy vessel. Collection: Museum of Northern Arizona, Cosgrove Collection (Catalog No. A427). - Style II Bowl with Turtle Figure
Description: Style II bowl with a central turtle figure. Collection: Museum of Northern Arizona. - Style III Bowl
Description: Style III bowl with figurative and geometric elements. Collection: Museum of Northern Arizona. - Style III Bowl with Bird FIgures
Description: Mimbres Style III bowl painted with two bird figures. Collection: Museum of Northern Arizona, Cosgrove Collection (Catalog No. NA7740). - Mimbres Style III Bowl
Rotate Description: Mimbres Style III bowl with a geometric pattern. Collection: Museum of Northern Arizona. - Style II Bowl
Description: Style II bowl. Collection: Museum of Northern Arizona. - Style II Bowl
Description: Deep Style II bowl with geometric designs. Collection: Museum of Northern Arizona, Cosgrove Collection (Catalog No. NA 3288.34). - Style III Bowl
Description: Style III bowl. Collection: Museum of Northern Arizona. - Late Style II Bowl
Description: Late Style II bowl. The red to black coloration of the design is the result of variable firing conditions. The design has fine straight hatchure like Style III, but is attached to the rim band, which is characteristic of Style II. Collection: Museum of Northern Arizona. - Style III Bowl
Description: Mimbres Style III bowl with geometric designs. Collection: Museum of Northern Arizona. - A Possible Kiva
This room, on the southeastern corner of the pueblo, is one of the largest in the village, yet no household tools or utensils were found inside. This suggests it was a special space, perhaps a ceremonial room known as a kiva. However, a kiva would have a single bench on the north side of the room. There is no record of this, but early excavations may have missed such a feature. In a village this size, one or two kivas would have been expected. They may have been used for the private aspects of ritual, while the larger, open community room served public ceremonies. Today, rectangular clan kivas persist in Hopi villages, while larger, round community kivas endure in the eastern Pueblos. Kivas are an integral part of Puebloan society and remain a cultural trait that can be traced from past to present.
Compare the possible kiva to the room to the left. Note the size difference? The inset shows the interior hearth (firepit) and deflector. - Roof Beams
The two beams at the rear of the room above have been in place for 800 years. Tree-ring dates obtained from various beams in the pueblo span from 1106 to 1220 but cluster around three periods: 1137, 1160, and 1190. This suggests specific periods of construction, or at least beam cutting. Many room walls also abut one another-evidence that a room was added on to one already in place. Perhaps the various building phases mark the arrival of clans, each bringing something different to the community, resulting in the "cultural brew" that makes Wupatki so unusual. Some archeologists see cultural traditions, such as Sinagua and Kayenta, not as "people" or genetic and ethnic groups, but rather as inhabited geographic regions experiencing a dynamic ebb-and-flow of populations. Migrations brought people together creating cultural dominance in some areas and shared cultural traits in others. Seen this way, specific traditions such as black-on-white pottery and T-shaped doorways could have been maintained over centuries by peoples of different linguistic and ethnic backgrounds. - View from the Inside
View from the inside of the "ready-made" room.