- Spindle Whorl
Description: Spindle whorl with a black-on-white design. Dimensions: Diam 3.5 cm. Provenience: Lower Ruin. Collection: WACC, Tonto National Monument (Catalog No. TONT 35). - Spindle Whorl
Description: Unfinished polychrome spindle whorl. Dimensions: Unknown. Provenience: Upper Ruin. Collection: WACC, Tonto National Monument (Catalog No. Tont 4632). - Spindle Whorl
Description: Spindle whorl found with a mass of unspun cotton. Whorls allowed weavers to twist and wind yarn to prepare it for weaving. Collection: On display at the Montezuma Castle National Monument Visitor Center (Catalog No. MOCA 54). - Spindle Whorl
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Worked Black Mesa Black-on-white sherd, ground round and drilled in the center. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 3003). - Spindle and Whorl
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan/Kayenta Description: Pot sherds were often reworked into disks for stick-and-whorl spindles used to spin cotton thread. This one is a Black Mesa Black-on-white spindle whorl mounted on replica spindle made by Zorro Bradley c. 1956 for an exhibit. Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument (catalog card). - Spindle
Description: Wooden spindle. Dimensions: L 11 1/2 in. Provenience: Unknown. Collection: WACC, Tonto National Monument (Catalog No. TONT 1512). - Spheriod
Description: Spheriod with a possible paint stain on its smooth surface. Dimensions: Diam. 1.5 in. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Specular Hematite
Description: An irregular piece of specular hematite worked so that one side is smooth. Dimensions: 4.4 x 4.4 x 2.6 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Speckled Polishing Stone
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Speckled oval red polishing stone. Dimensions: L 5.6, DIAM 2.2 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), ROOM 16, FILL. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Spatula Awl
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Polished white spatula awl. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Refuse mound, Test 2, backfill. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Spanish Rapier, Inscription "In Solingen"
Cultural Period: Spanish Colonial (late 1500s – 1846) Description: Spanish wooden-handled cup hilt rapier inscribed with “Gio Knegt” on one side and “In Solingen” on the other. “Gio Knegt” is the mark of the maker, Johannes Knecht. “In Solingen” proclaims the sword was made in the German city of Solingen. More than one Knecht manufactured swords in Solingen, leaving the date range for the production of this sword A.D. 1670 – 1805. The style of the sword, however, suggests an earlier manufacture date, perhaps in the late 1600s – early 1700s. Provenience: Unknown. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Spanish Rapier, Inscription "Gio Knegt"
Cultural Period: Spanish Colonial (late 1500s – 1846) Description: Spanish wooden-handled cup hilt rapier inscribed with “Gio Knegt” on one side and “In Solingen” on the other. “Gio Knegt” is the mark of the maker, Johannes Knecht. “In Solingen” proclaims the sword was made in the German city of Solingen. More than one Knecht manufactured swords in Solingen, leaving the date range for the production of this sword A.D. 1670 – 1805. The style of the sword, however, suggests an earlier manufacture date, perhaps in the late 1600s – early 1700s. Provenience: Unknown. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Spanish Rapier
Cultural Period: Spanish Colonial (late 1500s – 1846) Description: Spanish wooden-handled cup hilt rapier inscribed with “Gio Knegt” on one side and “In Solingen” on the other. “Gio Knegt” is the mark of the maker, Johannes Knecht. “In Solingen” proclaims the sword was made in the German city of Solingen. More than one Knecht manufactured swords in Solingen, leaving the date range for the production of this sword A.D. 1670 – 1805. The style of the sword, however, suggests an earlier manufacture date, perhaps in the late 1600s – early 1700s. Provenience: Unknown. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Spanish Inscription
Description: Spanish Inscription. Date: August 1, 2004 - Spanish Armor Breastplate, Interior
Cultural Period: Spanish Colonial (late 1500s – 1846) Description: Spanish armor breastplate, or cuirass, with a “proof mark” in the left half. This hemispherical dent was the result of a musket ball fired into the armor to “prove” the efficacy of the manufacture. Provenience: Unknown. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro.