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- Miniature Mortar and Ball
Description: Paint mortar and stone ball. Dimensions: Height 1.3 cm, diameter 4.4 cm, bowl 3.5 x .7 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Pumice Mortar and Ball
Description: Pumice mortar and smoothed pumice ball. Dimensions: Height 1.3 cm, Diameter 3.2 cm, bowl 2.2 x 1.4 cm (mortar). Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card - mortar, catalog card - ball). - 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). - 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). - Mortar and Pestle
Description: Vesicular basalt mortar with a basalt pestle. Dimensions: 29.8 x 27.3 x 16.5 cm (mortar; outer), 22.3 x 10.3 x 11.4 cm (mortar; inner); 7.5 inches long, base diameter 3.5 inches, handle 3.5 inches, handle diameter 2 inches (pestle). Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card - mortar; catalog card - pestle). - Sandstone Mortar
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Sandstone mortar. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 3464). - Pestle
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Stone pestle. A matching mortar was found in rock fall in Room 11. Dimensions: L 18.9, W 6.8, T 6.5 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 1, Upper fill. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Mortar and Pestle
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Paired mortar and pestle. Dimensions: L 14.3, W 13.6, T 3.8 CM (mortar); L 18.9, W 6.8, T 6.5 CM (pestle). Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 11, Rock fall (mortar); RM 1, Upper fill (pestle). Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Stone Mortar
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Circular stone mortar. A matching pestle was found in the upper fill of Room 1. Dimensions: L 14.3, W 13.6, T 3.8 CM; depression is 10 CM DIAM by 2.1 CM DEEP. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 11, IN FALLEN ROCK 10 CM ABOVE FLOOR, + 1 M FROM BENCH. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Natural Cup-shaped Concretions
Description: Naturally formed concretions found at Wupatki Pueblo and used for grinding pigments. Dimensions: (left) 0.7H x 1.5diam cm (0.28 x 0.59 in); (right) 3.3H x 1.7W cm (1.3 x 0.67 in). Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument (catalog card 1, catalog card 2).