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- After the Flood
Subject: After the flood. Date: 1901-1940 Collection: WACC: Casa Grande. - Agave Farm
Subject: Agave farm. Date: 1901-1940 Collection: WACC: Casa Grande. - Agave Knife
Description: Curved agave knife with use wear. Dimensions: L 3.25, W 2.75, H 0.25 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Agave Knife
Description: Hafted agave knife with an agave stalk handle. The stone knife blade was flaked along the edges and then pushed through the agave stalk while the stalk was still green (there are stretch cracks around the pointed end of the stone). This tool was well-used and exhibits extreme use-polish on the stone knife. Dimensions: Stalk-40.2 cm long, 4.5 cm diameter; Blade-14 x 9 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Agave Knife
Description: Agave knife with thin flaked edges, a notch on one long edge, and use wear on the blunter end. Dimensions: 14 x 4 3/4 x 1/8 inches. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Agave Knife
Description: Tabular agave knife with a long thin edge highly polished from use. Dimensions: 8.5 in, W 4 in. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Agave Knife Meant to be Hafted
Description: Agave knife with a curved blade exhibiting use polish. The narrow point of the stone would have been used in hafting the tool. Dimensions: 4 x 2 3/4 x 7/16 inches. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Agave Stalk
Description: A section of agave stalk into the end of which a stick was inserted and attached to a piece of cordage. Dimensions: Approximately 15 cm long (stalk). Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Agave Stalks
Description: Two agave stalks connected by a yucca cord. Dimensions: Each stalk is about 18 cm long. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Air Circulation System
In this room, someone designed an innovative air circulation system to allow for an indoor fire. A stone-lined ventilator trench is connected to an opening in the base of the cliff wall. The upright stone slab at the end of the ventilator trench deflected incoming air so that the draft would pass directly across the firepit. Smoke would exit through a roof opening. Note how preservation efforts have changed this building: original floor surface, as with this room, are much lower - dirt placed in the rooms after excavation protects floor features and keeps walls from collapsing. Throughout the dwelling you'll see a variety of modern drains that keep water from standing in rooms. In some cases the architecture has been altered. For example, the square and round holes on this front wall were placed for drainage, and the large masonry column built in the back corner supports the upper wall. - Alone in the Desert
- Altar, 1934
Subject: The first altar on the left inside the mission. Date: 1934 Collection: WACC: Tumacacori. - American Inscriptions, 1800s
Description: American Inscriptions from the 1800s. Date: August 1, 2004 - An Explosive Past?
On the horizon, the San Francisco Peaks rise as the highest mountains, forming the dominant feature of the san Francisco Volcanic Field. Imagine the sides continuing up to form one 16,000-foot-high mountain. This may be what the stratovolcano looked like about 500,000 years ago. The summit and flank of the volcano may have exploded and collapsed, much like Mount St. Helens. Erosion over thousands of years has created several peaks from the original volcano. Humphreys Peak, standing at 12,633 feet, is the tallest and is the highest peak in Arizona. How did they get their name? The peaks were named in 1629 by a group of Franciscan missionaries in honor of St. Francis of Assisi. In 1847, a small West Coast settlement on the verge of becoming a boom-town changed its name from Yerba Buena to San Francisco. This happened more than 300 years after the Arizona peaks were christened. - An Intersection of Ideas