- Puebloan Knife
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Bifacial Pueblo-period knife made from agatized wood and found in Wupatki Pueblo. Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument (catalog card - Pueblo Traditions
- Prehistoric Corn, Beans, and Squash
Description: 800-year-old agricultural foods from Wupatki Pueblo. Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument. - Prehistoric Corn Cobs
Description: 800-year-old corn cobs from Wupatki Pueblo. Prehistoric corn was quite a bit smaller than most modern varieties, but capable of successful growth in the harsh Southwest environment. Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument. - Pots People
- Possible Nose or Cheek Plug
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan (Wupatki Pueblo, A.D. 1130 – A.D. 1260) Description: Carved white stone that could have been a nose or cheek plug. Dimensions: 1.9 (L) x 1.46 (W) cm (0.75 (L) x 0.57 (W) in). Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument (catalog card). - Polishing Stone
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Stone used for smoothing and polishing pottery. Provenience unknown. Dimensions: 4.5 cm (H) x 4.0 cm (W) x 2.5 cm (T) (1.77 x 1.57 x 0.98 in). Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument. - Plaza
The open plaza area may have been the hub of village life and work. Ethnographic evidence suggests most activities were gender specific, and everyone contributed. Children learned by watching, listening, then doing. Surely there were no idle hands. Women worked clay into necessary utensils. They mortared the pueblo, knowing clay as they did. As the herbalists, gatherers, and protectors of stored crops and seeds, women were vital to the community. Men hunted and farmed. The entire growing season may have been spent away from home tending fields. Winter brought with it time to weave. Fine cotton textiles and abundant tools suggest weaving was an important, highly developed skill at Wupatki. "...the man cultivates the field, but he renders its harvests into the woman's keeping." -A Hopi view of the community, 1894 "No woman ever sat at the Hopi looms. The men were expert weavers; they wove diligently all winter long in the various kivas. Hopi woven items were known far and wide, and people of other tribes came to barter for them." -Helen Sekaquaptewa, from "Me and Mine" - Plainview Point
Culture: Paleoindian (Plainview ≈ 13,000 - 10,000 BP) Description: Plainview projectile point base from Wupatki Pueblo, Wupatki National Monument. The material is an unsourced brown chert. The basal thinning on this point is reminiscent of Clovis fluting, leading some researchers to classify this point as a Clovis fluted point rather than a Plainview. Dimensions: 5.2 cm (L) x 2.5 cm (W) x 0.30 cm (T) (2.0 x .98 x .12 in). Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument (catalog card). - Plain-Weave Cotton Cloth
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan and Hohokam Description: Plain-weave cotton cloth dyed red. The North Country is too cold for cotton to grow, so the cloth, or the cotton from which it was woven, was likely traded to the Sinagua by their southern neighbors, the Hohokam. Dimensions: 14.0 cm x 12.5 cm. Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument (catalog card). - Pithouse Model
Pithouse model built by Christian E. Downum and photographed by Dan Boone/Ryan Belnap, Bilby Research Center, Northern Arizona University. - Pithouse Model
Pithouse model built by Christian E. Downum and photographed by Dan Boone/Ryan Belnap, Bilby Research Center, Northern Arizona University. - Pithouse Model
Pithouse model built by Christian E. Downum and photographed by Dan Boone/Ryan Belnap, Bilby Research Center, Northern Arizona University. - Pithouse Model
Pithouse model built by Christian E. Downum and photographed by Dan Boone/Ryan Belnap, Bilby Research Center, Northern Arizona University. - Pithouse Model
Pithouse model built by Christian E. Downum and photographed by Dan Boone/Ryan Belnap, Bilby Research Center, Northern Arizona University.