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- Manos
Archaic-type manos from southern Arizona. - Sandstone Mortar
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Sandstone mortar. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 3464). - Sandstone Maul
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Coarse sandstone maul shaped by pecking and bearing a full center groove. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 372). - Sandstone Cylinder
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Worked cylindrical sandstone object with a large chip broken off one side. The chip has been reattached with glue. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 8). - Full-groove Axe
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Basalt full-groove axe head. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 2596). - Hafted Axe
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Fully-grooved stone axe hafted with a wooden loop handle, collected by Byron Cummings in 1909. The axe head is made of basalt. The bit and sides are polished, but the back of the head is rough - either pecked or used for pounding. The handle is looped around the lateral groove in the axe head, and smaller split twigs or vines hold the handle and axe head in place. Red pigment is still apparent on the loop around the axe head. Dimensions: 4 L x 3 1/4 W x 2 7/8 T (axe). Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 433). - Shaft Straightener
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Sandstone shaft straightener. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument. - Mano and Metate
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: White sandstone mano and metate set. Dimensions: Mano = 8 L x 4 1/2 W (inches); Metate = Unknown. Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 155 - mano, and 156 - metate). - Trough Metate and Mano
Description: Roughly shaped vesicular basalt metate with deep trough and a vesicular basalt mano. Dimensions: 42 x 31.9 x 14.6 cm (metate; outer), 42 x 19.2 x 10.8 cm (metate, inner); 16 x 10 x 5 cm (mano). Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card - metate, catalog card- mano). - Trough Metate and Mano
Description: Roughly shaped vesicular basalt metate with deep trough and a bifacial rectangular vesticular basalt mano grooved at the center of one side. Dimensions: 54 x 20 x 33 cm (metate); 18 x 10.5 x 7 cm (mano). Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card - metate, catalog card - mano). - Mortar and Pestle
Description: Vesicular basalt mortar with a basalt pestle. Dimensions: 29.8 x 27.3 x 16.5 cm (mortar; outer), 22.3 x 10.3 x 11.4 cm (mortar; inner); 7.5 inches long, base diameter 3.5 inches, handle 3.5 inches, handle diameter 2 inches (pestle). Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card - mortar; catalog card - pestle). - Diorite 3/4-groove Axe
Description: Single bit 3/4-groove axe made of diorite. The axe is polished, but rather coarsely, with fine polishing only at the tip of the blade. The blade tapers 2 cm on each side and to the poll. The widest part is a little above the center of the axe, and the poll is flattened slightly. Dimensions: L 26.4, W 7.4; Poll W 5.1, L 3.2; Groove W 2.2, D .4; Blade L 21 cm; Weight 3 lb 14 oz. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Diorite 3/4-groove Axe
Description: Diorite single bit 3/4-groove axe. The blade tapers 2.6 cm on each side and is polished with many irregularities. The face grooves are also polished, but the rounded poll is not. The blade edge is battered and chipped, as is the poll. The groove on the edges of the blade are exceptionally wide and shallow (5.8 x .1 cm), and bears a red stain, possibly from hematite. Dimensions: L 25.4, W 8.0, H 5.4; Poll L 4.2; Groove W 3.2, D .5; Blade L 17.4 cm; Weight 4.5 lb. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - 3/4-groove Axe
Description: 3/4-groove diorite axe. The flattened surface is natural, not worked. Dimensions: L 17.7, W 5.1 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - 3/4-groove Axe
Description: Well-shaped porphyritic diorite 3/4-groove axe with polishing and use wear on the cutting edge. Dimensions: L 9 x 3 1/4 x 1 7/8 in; Weight 2 lb 5 oz. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card).