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- Zuni Spotted Chert Core
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Zuni Spotted Chert core or tested cobble; also labeled as a possible chopper in the artifact catalog. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 18, Fill. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Flake Tools
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Two chert flake tools, or utilized flakes, from Atsinna. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 18, Fill. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Grinding Slab
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Grinding slab with a single use surface. Shaped by flaking, and pecked to rejuvenate the grinding surface. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 17, FILL. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Bone Awl from Room 17
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Polished bone awl. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 17, Fill. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Bone Awl from Room 20
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Polished bone awl. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 20, Floor & 1 Foot above. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Bone Awl from Room 20, Alternate View
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Polished bone awl. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 20, Floor & 1 Foot above. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Bird Bone Awl from Room 20
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Weathered Aves (turkey?) tarsometatarsus bone awl (Catalog No. ELMO 1577). Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 20, FILL. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Pinnawa Red-on-white Bowl
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, North Atsinna (contemporaneous with Atsinna Pueblo, A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Reconstructed Pinnawa (?) Red-on-white bowl. Provenience: LA 430 (North Ruin, also called North Atsinna), Test 1, 50-75 CM. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Pinnawa Red-on-white Bowl, Alternate View
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, North Atsinna (contemporaneous with Atsinna Pueblo, A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Reconstructed Pinnawa (?) Red-on-white bowl. Provenience: LA 430 (North Ruin, also called North Atsinna), Test 1, 50-75 CM. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Western Basketmaker II Point
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Contemporaneous with Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Corner- to side-notched projectile point with a missing tang; made on a fine grained red chert with retouch. Identified by Ashlee Bailey, Northern Arizona University graduate student in Anthropology, as a Western Basketmaker II point. Provenience: LA 430 (North Ruin, also called North Atsinna), Surface. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Large Sandstone Abrader from North Atsinna
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, North Atsinna (contemporaneous with Atsinna Pueblo, A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Large heat-damages sandstone abrader with two deep and two shallow grooves on one surface. Provenience: LA 430 (North Ruin, also called North Atsinna), TEST 1, SURFACE-25 CM. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Black-on-white and Whiteware Worked Sherds
Cultural Period: Prehistoric Native American Description: Black-on-white and whiteware sherds with smooth ground edges. Provenience: Field Site #: M-1. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Worked Sherds from Manuelito Ruin
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Manuelito Ruin (A.D. 700 – 1350) Description: Worked sherds from Manuelito Ruin. Three have beveled exterior edges; five are ground with rounded edges; five are flaked and slightly ground; and two are flaked, oval, and possibly ground. Provenience: Manuelito (Great Ruin), near Gallup, NM. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Zuni Spotted Chert Flake
Cultural Period: Prehistoric Description: Zuni Spotted Chert flake; retouched along one edge and perforated near the flake termination. Zuni Spotted Chert (also called Yellow-brown Spotted Chert, Zuni Jasper, and Chinle Chert) is a material local to the Zuni Mountains. Provenience: Uncertain; possibly from LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo). Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Historic Cast of the Vargas Inscription
Cultural Period: Historic, Anglo (1848 – 1950) Description: Plaster cast of the 1692 Vargas inscription made from latex squeezing some time before 1944, when the cast was loaned to the Museum of New Mexico. The cast returned to the Monument in 1992. Provenience: El Morro. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro.