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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). - 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. - 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. - 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). - 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). - Raw Argillite
Description: Raw argillite. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Raw Argillite
Description: Raw argillite. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Raw Azurite and Azurite Pigment
Description: Small ceramic bowl with pure crystalline blue azurite pigment and raw azurite pieces. Dimensions: Height 0.6, Diameter 2.5 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog cards - pigment, bowl, and raw azurite: TUZI 1214, TUZI 1316, TUZI 2081). - Raw Malachite
Description: Pieces of raw malachite. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center. - Raw Malachite, Close-up
Description: Pieces of raw malachite. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center. - Rectangular Bead
Description: Large rectangular turquoise bead with rounded corners. Dimensions: 1.3 x 1.2 x 0.7 cm, hole diam 0.3 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Rectangular Turquoise Pendant
Description: Turquoise pendant with the top edge broken. Dimensions: 1.9 x 1.2 x 0.6 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Rock Salt
Description: Unworked rock salt. Dimensions: 7.5 x 5 x 2 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card).