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- Grooved Mortar
Description: Mortar with a transverse groove on opposite side. Dimensions: 6.35 x 3.18 x 3.18 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Incised Argillite Paint Mortar
Description: Argillite paint mortar with 27 vertical exterior grooves (each 2 mm wide by 2 mm deep). A black substance adheres to the interior of the mortar, which was at one time well polished all around. A large piece of the base has broken and been mended. Dimensions: Diam. 7.2 x Base 5.5 x Depth 1.9 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Miniature Basalt Mortar
Description: Miniature basalt mortar. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card ). - Miniature Metate
Description: Paint mortar made from pumice and shaped like a miniature metate. Dimensions: 9.6 x 7 x 5.1 cm, Trough -9.2 x 5.3 x 1.1 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Miniature Mortar and Ball
Description: Paint mortar and stone ball. Dimensions: Height 1.3 cm, diameter 4.4 cm, bowl 3.5 x .7 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Mortar and Pestle
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Paired mortar and pestle. Dimensions: L 14.3, W 13.6, T 3.8 CM (mortar); L 18.9, W 6.8, T 6.5 CM (pestle). Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 11, Rock fall (mortar); RM 1, Upper fill (pestle). Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Mortar and Pestle
Description: Mortar made from vesicular basalt and plug-shaped pestle of the same material. Dimensions: Mortar diam 3.5 inches (8.89 cm), bowl diam. 2 in (approx. 5 cm), thickness 1.75 in (4.45 cm), depth 1 in (2.54 cm); Pestle 4.5 in (11.43 cm) long. Collection: On display at the Montezuma Castle National Monument Visitor Center (Catalog No. MOCA 97 - mortar, and MOCA 264 - pestle). - 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). - Mortar with Limonite
Description: Stone paint mortar with limonite. Dimensions: 3.7 cm tall, 6.3 cm diameter. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card - mortar, catalog card - limonite). - Mortar with Malachite Pieces
Description: Pumice paint mortar with unworked malachite pieces. Dimensions: 3.7 cm tall, 6.3 cm diameter. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card - mortar, catalog card - malachite). - Mortar with White Pigment
Description: Basalt mortar with a white pigment tentatively identified as kaolin powder. Dimensions: 1.25 inches tall, 2.75 inch diameter. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card - mortar, catalog card - pigment). - Pestle
Description: Oval polished pestle with one rounded and one flat end. Dimensions: Unknown. Provenience: Unknown. Collection: WACC, Tonto National Monument (Catalog No. TONT 2575). - Pestle
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Stone pestle. A matching mortar was found in rock fall in Room 11. Dimensions: L 18.9, W 6.8, T 6.5 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 1, Upper fill. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Pestle
Description: Basalt pestle. Dimensions: H 15.2, Diam. 7.6, Groove diam. 3.8 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Pestle or Polishing Stone
Description: Listed in the artifact catalog as a pestle, but by appearance, possibly a polishing stone. Dimensions: Unknown. Provenience: Upper Ruin. Collection: WACC, Tonto National Monument (Catalog No. TONT 4580).