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- Palette with Red Hematite
Description: Palette with eight incised shallow notches along one edge. The hematite has been added to show how the palette would have been used. Dimensions of palette: 10.8 x 3.2 x 1.3 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card - palette, catalog card - hematite). - Palette with Specular Hematite
Description: Slate palette with an incised border. A piece of unworked specular hematite was placed with the palette to show how the artifact would have been used in the past. Dimensions of palette: 13.5 x 8.4 x .8 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card - palette, catalog card - hematite). - Mortar with Limonite
Description: Stone paint mortar with limonite. Dimensions: 3.7 cm tall, 6.3 cm diameter. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card - mortar, catalog card - limonite). - Mortar with Malachite Pieces
Description: Pumice paint mortar with unworked malachite pieces. Dimensions: 3.7 cm tall, 6.3 cm diameter. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card - mortar, catalog card - malachite). - Palette with Azurite
Description: Incised palette with an azurite lump used to make a ground powder paste. Dimensions: 8.2 x 14.6 x 2.4 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card - palette, catalog card - azurite). - Mortar with White Pigment
Description: Basalt mortar with a white pigment tentatively identified as kaolin powder. Dimensions: 1.25 inches tall, 2.75 inch diameter. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card - mortar, catalog card - pigment). - 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. - Trough Metate and Mano
Description: Roughly shaped vesicular basalt metate with deep trough and a vesicular basalt mano. Dimensions: 42 x 31.9 x 14.6 cm (metate; outer), 42 x 19.2 x 10.8 cm (metate, inner); 16 x 10 x 5 cm (mano). Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card - metate, catalog card- mano). - Stone Balls
Description: Game tallies? Kick ball? Sling stone? Club head? Or kiva "thunder" stone, rolled across the floor to imitate thunder? Stone balls had many uses. The ball on the left retains what may be hematite or ocher pigment and measures approximately 6.9 cm in width. The ball on the right measures approximately 4.8 cm wide, and was collected with a mortar, in which the ball fit. Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument (catalog card 1, catalog card 2). - Incised Argillite Paint Mortar
Description: Argillite paint mortar with 27 vertical exterior grooves (each 2 mm wide by 2 mm deep). A black substance adheres to the interior of the mortar, which was at one time well polished all around. A large piece of the base has broken and been mended. Dimensions: Diam. 7.2 x Base 5.5 x Depth 1.9 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Hafted Axe
Description: A 3/4 grooved stone axe in its original wooden haft. Dimensions: 7.5 inch long handle, axe 4 inches. Collection: On display at the Montezuma Castle National Monument Visitor Center (Catalog No. MOCA 157). - Hafted Axe
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Fully-grooved stone axe hafted with a wooden loop handle, collected by Byron Cummings in 1909. The axe head is made of basalt. The bit and sides are polished, but the back of the head is rough - either pecked or used for pounding. The handle is looped around the lateral groove in the axe head, and smaller split twigs or vines hold the handle and axe head in place. Red pigment is still apparent on the loop around the axe head. Dimensions: 4 L x 3 1/4 W x 2 7/8 T (axe). Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 433). - Miniature Metate
Description: Paint mortar made from pumice and shaped like a miniature metate. Dimensions: 9.6 x 7 x 5.1 cm, Trough -9.2 x 5.3 x 1.1 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Axe Handle
Description: Prehistoric axe handle, encrusted with salt; a bit of yucca fiber tie still clings to the end. Dimensions: 7.1 cm from end, stick thinned for 17.4 cm by removal of wood from one side (55.8 x 2.6 cm). Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Arrowshaft Straightener
Description: Oval arrowshaft straightener with transverse groove; stone has been burned. Dimensions: Approximately 9 cm long. Collection: On display at the Montezuma Castle National Monument Visitor Center (Catalog No. MOCA 429).