Home / ID Guides / Rocks and Minerals 113
- Raw Argillite
Description: Raw argillite. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Raw and Worked Malachite
Description: Pieces of raw malachite and a large worked piece. Dimensions: H 1.9, Diam 3.2. cm (worked piece). Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog cards - worked piece; raw pieces - TUZI 2719, TUZI 1533, and TUZI 3035). - Presley Wash Obsidian Biface
Description: Large Presley Wash obsidian biface alternately identified as Clovis, non-Clovis Paleoindian, and Pueblo in origin. Dimensions: 14.9 x 6.4 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - 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. - Pendant and Beads
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Carved red stone pendant and gray-black beads strung on a cotton cord. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument. - Pendant
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Broken red stone pendant with beveled edges. Dimensions: 1 L x 1 W (inches). Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 198). - Pendant
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Complete red stone (probably argillite) pendant. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 195). - Pendant
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Notched and drilled red stone pendant. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument. - Pendant
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Small brown stone pendant with red-colored overtones. Dimensions: 1 L x 5/8 W (inches). Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 196). - Pendant
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Small round partially-drilled red stone pendant. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 1218). - 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. - 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). - 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 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). - 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.