- Rosary
Cultural Period: Spanish Colonial (late 1500s – 1846) Description: Rosary with black beads and a silver and black crucifix. Provenience: Unknown. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Ropes and Clinkers
You are now on the southern edge of the Bonito Lava Flow. Magma, periodically relieved of gas pressure, squeezed out of the base of the cone as glowing liquid lava, creating a structurally complex flow covering 2 sq miles (5 sq km). Lava flows tend to form either jagged blocks, known as aa (ah-ah), or a smooth, ropey surface of pahoehoe (pa-hoy-hoy). Flows usually start as pahoehoe, thin and runny. As the lava cools and becomes more thick and pasty, it can change into an aa flow. The Bonito Flow is mostly aa lava. When aa is forming, cooled, hardened blocks - sometimes called clinkers - are rafted along the surface of moving lava, making clinking noises as they tumble into each other. Although its structure is complicated, the flow’s composition is uniform throughout. The lava and cinders around you, whether black or red, ropey or jagged, are basalt. - Rope
Description: Rope made of yucca (?) fibers. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: Navajo National Monument. - Rooms 8, 7, 6, and 1-S
Description: Looking south across rooms 1-N and 6 into Room 1-S. Room 8 is immediately left of the photographer, and Room 7 is left of Room 6, which visible at two walls separating the room from rooms 7 and 1-S. Room 1-N features cannot be seen in this image because of the angle of the camera. Date: June 9, 2010 - Rooms 7, 2, 4, and 5
Description: Looking southeast across rooms 7 (front), 2 (center), 4 (back left), and 5 (back right). Date: June 9, 2010 - Rooms 5, 4, and 15
Description: View north emphasizing the linear alignment of rooms 5 (front), 4 (center), and 15 (back), the latter of which is also part of the north alignment of rooms (8, 9, 15, 16, and 17). Date: June 9, 2010 - Rooms 2, 4, 9, and 15
Description: Looking north across rooms 2 (front left) and 4 (front right) into rooms 9 (center left) and 15 (center right). Room 8 is barely visible at the far back left, as is Room 16 at the far back right. The corner of Room 7 is also just visible in the extreme left foreground of the photo. Note the number of sealed doorways. Date: June 9, 2010 - Room Interior, Montezuma Well
Subject: Interior of a room, Montezuma Well. Date: 1902 Collection: WACC: Montezuma Castle/Well. - Room Interior, Keet Seel, 2006
Description: Room interior, Keet Seel. Date: 2006 Collection: Navajo National Monument. - Room Beams, Wupatki Pueblo
Description: Framework of roof reconstruction at Wupatki Pueblo, showing placement of reconstructed primary and secondary beams. In the 1930s, using information gained from excavations, Museum of Northern Arizona archaeologists reconstructed the roofs of Wupatki Pueblo's rooms, attempting to match the original 12th and 13th century construction materials as closely as possible. Date: 1930s. Collection: Wupatki National Monument (Catalog No. WUPA 19819). - Room 9 West Interior
- Room 9 North Interior
- Room 8 North Interior
- Room 73, 1930s vs. 2011
Other people have come and gone since the original occupants. During the late 1800s, Basque sheepherders stayed here briefly, enlarging this doorway and occupying the room beyond. Local prospector Ben Doney pothunted Wupatki, amassing an impressive collection of artifacts. Concern over looting at Wupatki led to its protection as a national monument in 1924. Later expansion of the monument included some land historically used since the mid-1800s by Navajo naat' áanii (headman) Peshlakai Etsidi and his descendants. These Diné families grazed sheep here, moving seasonally between numerous camps, leaving behind more than 60 residential sites. Their history is intertwined with that of the monument. They remain intimately tied to the Wupatki landscape.
Rooms on this end of the pueblo were excavated and reconstructed to serve as an office and museum. The National Park Service now has a policy of stabilizing buildings in their existing state. The 1930s reconstructions were removed in 1950. - Room 7 North Interior