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Basalt Pottery Anvil
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Basalt pottery anvil used as an aid in shaping ceramic vessels. Provenience unknown. Dimensions: 6 cm (H) x 8.5 cm (W) (2.36 x 3.35 in). Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument.
Black Mesa Black-on-white Jar
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan/Kayenta (Wupatki Pueblo, A.D. 1130 – A.D. 1260) Description: Black Mesa black-on-white jar bearing a diamond pattern around the neck and stylized thunderbirds around the body. This jar was recovered from Wupatki Pueblo. Dimensions: 4.5 inches (H) x 2.0 inches (mouth diameter). Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument (catalog card.
Carved Abalone Shell Pendant
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Abalone shell carved into a bird pendant. Unfortunately, no provenience information is known for this artifact, so culture, period, and location of origin cannot be established. Dimensions: 4.2 cm long x 1.0 cm wide. Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument (catalog card).
Ceramic Figurine
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Painted ceramic quadruped from a pottery vessel found in Wupatki Pueblo. Design is possibly Tularosa Black-on-white. Dimensions: 3.9 cm (H) x 2.1 cm (W) x 1.8 cm (T). Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument.
Cohonina Points
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan/Cohonina Description: Black point: Obsidian projectile point manufactured in the Cohonina style. This point was found in the trash on the west side of Wupatki Pueblo. Opaque point: Cohonina-style chalcedony projectile point or drill from Wupatki Pueblo. Dimensions: (black) 1.2L x 0.4W x 0.1T cm (0.47 x 0.16 x 0.04 in); (opaque) 45.0L x 9.0W x 2.0T mm (1.77 x 0.35 x 0.08 in). Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument (catalog card 1, catalog card 2).
Copper Bells from Mexico
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Copper bells in the Southwest originated in Mesoamerica. Unfortunately, the provenience information for these particular bells is currently unknown. Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument (catalog card 1, catalog card 2).
Cotton Cloth
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan and Hohokam Description: (left)weft wrap, open-weave cotton cloth recovered from the Wupatki Pueblo trash midden; (right) 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: (left) 8 cm x 4.5 cm x 0.1 cm; (right) 14.0 cm x 12.5 cm. Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument (catalog card 1, catalog card 2).
Deadmans Fugitive Red Pitcher
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan/Cohonina (ca. A.D. 700-1175) Description: Deadmans Fugitive Red pitcher from NA5137, an archaeological site located within Wupatki National Monument. This pitcher provides an example of Cohonina-style pottery. Dimensions: 10.0 cm tall (3.94 in). Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument (catalog card).
Flagstaff Black-on-white Bowl
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan/Kayenta (ca. 1150-1225) Description: Flagstaff Black-on-white bowl with handle; representative of Kayenta-style pottery. Dimensions: 6.5 cm (H) x 12.0 cm (diameter) (2.56 x 4.72 in). Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument (catalog card); on loan from the Museum of Northern Arizona.
Flagstaff Black-on-white Ladle
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Small Flagstaff Black-on-white ladle. Dimensions: 18 cm long x a bowl diameter of 9 cm. Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument (catalog card); on loan from the Museum of Northern Arizona.
Flagstaff Black-on-white Shaped Disk
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan/Kayenta Description: Flagstaff Black-on-white ceramic disc shaped by flaking and/or grinding and used to scrape and smooth Kayenta-style pottery. Dimensions: 4.6 cm (W) x 0.4 cm (T) (1.81 x 0.16 in). Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument (catalog card).
Hohokam-style Frog Carved in Shell
Cultural Period: Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan (Wupatki Pueblo, A.D. 1130 – A.D. 1260) and Hohokam Description: Carved shell frog, perforated for use as a bead or pendant; found at Wupatki Pueblo, but of Hohokam origin. Dimensions: 4.2 cm (H) x 4.6 cm (W) x 1.9 cm (T). Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument (catalog card).
Kayenta Points
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan/Kayenta Description: Left: Basally notched projectile point manufactured on chert in the Kayenta style. This point was found on a mesita west of Crack-in-Rock Road. Right: Kayenta-style projectile point manufactured on brown chert and found in Wupatki Pueblo. Dimensions: (left) 3.6L x 1.6W x 0.31T cm (1.42 x 0.63 x 0.12 in); (right)3.3L x 1.8W x 0.4T cm (1.3 x 0.71 x 0.16 in). Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument ("http://swvirtualmuseum.nau.edu/docs/Wupatki/WUPA5263.pdf" >catalog card 1, catalog card 2).
Nose Plugs
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan (Wupatki Pueblo, A.D. 1130 – A.D. 1260) Description: (top) limestone nose plug from Wupatki Pueblo; (bottom) red argillite nose plug from Wupatki Pueblo. Men wore these nose plugs through a pierced septum. Dimensions: (top) 3.7 cm (H) x 2.2 cm (W) x 1.7 cm (T); (bottom) 0.7 in. Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument (catalog card 1, catalog card 2).
Obsidian Point
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan/Sinagua Description: Obsidian projectile point manufactured in the Sinagua fashion. Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument.