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- Raw Malachite, Close-up
Description: Pieces of raw malachite. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center. - Obsidian Core
Description: An obsidian core or blank. Glassy obsidian provided a razor-sharp edge for fine cutting. Dimensions: Approximately 10 cm long. Collection: On display at the Montezuma Castle National Monument Visitor Center (Catalog No. MOCA 633). - Beads, Close-up 2
Description: 95 stone beads, including 16 red argillite beads, 77 black beads, and 2 white beads. Dimensions: Average bead diameter of 2 mm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Pendant
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Small brown stone pendant with red-colored overtones. Dimensions: 1 L x 5/8 W (inches). Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 196). - Projectile Point with Missing Base
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Medial fragment of a possible projectile point with irregular notching along both margins; made on a tan and white mottled chert. The basal portion is missing. According to Ashlee Bailey, Northern Arizona University graduate student in Anthropology, the point is morphologically similar to San Pedro or San Jose points. Dimensions: L 4.6, W 2.2, T 0.6 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Room 17, Fill. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Pikeman's Helmet, Front
Cultural Period: Spanish Colonial (late 1500s – 1846) Description: Spanish pikeman’s helmet with a ridge across the top and two holes on either side near the brim. Provenience: Unknown. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Obsidian Point
Description: Obsidian point with long convex sides, a straight base, and shallow side notches. Dimensions: 2.5 x 1.1 x 0.4 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Grant Negative 26
Subject: Prehistoric canal at Montezuma Well. Date: ca. mid-1940s Collection: WACC: Montezuma Castle/Well. - Grant Negative 20
Subject: Montezuma Well, showing the cliff dwellings on the North Rim; taken from above. Date: ca. mid-1940s Collection: WACC: Montezuma Castle/Well. - Wooden Cross, Back
Cultural Period: Spanish Colonial (late 1500s – 1846) Description: Painted wooden cross with a three-tiered base. The cross is brown and trimmed in gold, with a hole in each of the arms and one in the main shaft, and reads “INRII” across a plaque at the top. Orange and red painted paisleys adorn the back. Provenience: Unknown. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Two Awls from Room 4
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Unpolished splinter awl with a rounded end, a slight curve, and a weathered tip (front), and a well-polished awl fashioned from a metapodial (back). Dimensions: L 11.9, W 0.9, T 0.6 CM (front); L 8.9, W 1.5, T 1.1 CM (back). Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 4, Upper fill. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Salt
Description: A crystalline cube of salt from a salt mine southwest of Camp Verde (modern). Collection: On display at the Montezuma Castle National Monument Visitor Center (Catalog No. MOCA 454). - Metal Ring
Cultural Period: Historic (late 1500s – 1950) Description: Metal (iron?) ring, heavily rusted and function unknown. Provenience: 10 feet east of the trail leading down from the mesa top. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Half-split Bone Awl
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Half-split bone awl from Atsinna Pueblo. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Test 1, 36-38.75 M, Level 150-200 CM. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Kwakina/Hesholauthla Polychrome Bowl
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Restored Kwakina Polychrome (variant) bowl with a black-on-tan rim band and black- and white-on-tan exterior design (catalog description). Barbara Mills, Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of Arizona, says she would call it Heshothauthla, but more of a unit design. According to Greg Schachner, Asst. Professor at UCLA, the characteristic of not getting a good strong orange is common in the El Morro valley. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Rm 7, Floor fill. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro.