- 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. - 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. - Galena
Description: Galena fragment from a pithouse in Walnut Canyon National Monument. Dimensions: 0.4 grams. Provenience: WACA 85A-92, Room 1, Hearth. Collection: National Park Service, Walnut Canyon (FS No. 36). - Galena, Alternate View
Description: Galena fragment from a pithouse in Walnut Canyon National Monument. Dimensions: 0.4 grams. Provenience: WACA 85A-92, Room 1, Hearth. Collection: National Park Service, Walnut Canyon (FS No. 36). - Government Mountain Obsidian
Description: Government Mountain obsidian comes from the slopes of Government Mountain in the San Francisco Volcano Field near Flagstaff, Arizona. The material is fine-grained and generally lacking phenocrysts, but appears granular because of the presence of alkali feldspar in the matrix. - Kaibab Chert
Description: Kaibab chert forms as nodules within the Kaibab Formation limestones of the Colorado Plateau. The brown mottling in the material consists primarily of the silica skeletons of ancient sponges of the genus Actinocoelia. - Narbona Pass Chert
Description: Narbona Pass chert, previously known as Washington Pass chert, is a cryptocrystalline chert with a pure pink hue. The only known source for this material is in the Chuska Mountains of New Mexico. - Partridge Creek Obsidian
Description: Partridge Creek, or Round Mountain, obsidian is found in the Mount Floyd volcanic field in southwest Coconino County, Arizona on the southeast flank of Round Mountain and in secondary deposits along Partridge Creek. The cortex of this obsidian ranges from gray-black to brown-black. The matrix is very glassy and typically opaque black, but thin flakes are cloudy gray and sometimes have cloudy banding. - Presley Wash Obsidian
Description: Presley Wash obsidian is actually a sub-vitreous rhyolite ranging from black to gray-green to opaque gray. Sanidine phenocrysts are often present in the matrix, as seen in both samples depicted here. The source of this material is in Presley Wash, east of Round Mountain, Arizona, and in the alluvium south of the juncture of Partridge Creek and Presley Wash in the same area.