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- Shell Bead
Description: Shell disk bead, ground, polished, and biconically drilled. Dimensions: Unknown. Provenience: Upper Ruin. Collection: WACC, Tonto National Monument (Catalog No. TONT 5142). - Main House, ca. 1907
Subject: Main house, valley, and orchard on Faraway Ranch from the southwest. Date: ca. 1907 Collection: WACC: Chiricahua. - Banded Corrugated Jar
Description: Banded corrugated jar. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: Navajo National Monument. - Survival in Extremes
Notice the different patterns of vegetation around you. Volcanic eruptions alter plant communities, destroying some, creating new habitat for others, and changing growth rates for those remaining. On the lava flow in front of you most soil has come from wind-blown material that collects in cracks and holds water. Consequently, soil and moisture vary dramatically across the flow. And, since seeds blow in, colonization is quite random. Classic succession with lichens breaking down rock into soil, and plants returning in predictable sequence is not occurring here. As plants return to the barren landscape, so do the animals that use the plants for food and shelter. Many animals that live here are nocturnal. Some take shelter in the lava flow. Others blend in so well with their surroundings that they are difficult to spot. A careful observer may see evidence such as tracks or droppings. - Negative 18
Subject: Chiricahua National Monument. Date: 1935 Collection: WACC: Chiricahua. - Projectile Points
Surprisingly, the projectile points (used to tip darts and arrows) recovered from the site are not typical of Cohonina-style points, and instead resemble styles used by earlier peoples (right) and Kayenta or Fremont hunters (left). - Wide Mouth Jar
- Chiricahua Mountains
Subject: View looking northwest along the west flank of the Chiricahua Mountains with the Dos Cabezas Mountains visible in the distance beyond Sulphur Springs Valley. Date: 1937 Collection: WACC: Chiricahua. - Black-on-red Disk
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Worked black-on-red sherd disk with flaked edges and a ground interior surface. Dimensions: L 5.7, W 5.4, T 0.4 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Rm 1-S, Floor, 20 CM. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Worked Whiteware Jar Rim
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Whiteware jar rim with the body edge ground smooth. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Outside Rm 19 & Rm 20, N side. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Cast Iron Dragon, Exterior
Cultural Period: Historic (late 1500s – 1950) Description: Cast iron stylized dragon, possibly from an escutcheon plate (a decorative usually used to hide cut holes such as those made for door locks and plumbing fixtures). The design is possibly Spanish. Provenience: Unknown. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Cliff Face Collapse, 1947
Subject: About four tons of rock fell from the cliff front above the Lower Ruins of Castle A on January 7, 1947, covering a portion of the walkway through the ruins and rolling into the lower rooms. Part of the walk was badly broken and portions of ruin walls were knocked down. Date: January 10, 1947 Collection: WACC: Montezuma Castle/Well. - Lino Gray Seed Jar, Alternate View
Description: Lino Gray seed jar. Collection: Museum of Northern Arizona (Catalog No. A1910). - Shields
Description: Shields, Inscription Trail. Date: August 1, 2004 - Coiled Basket Base
Description: Coiled basket base. Dimensions: Diam 16.0 cm. Provenience: Upper Ruin. Collection: WACC, Tonto National Monument (Catalog No. TONT 654).