- Batten
Description: Wooden batten. Weavers used these to hold warp threads apart. Dimensions: 17.5 inches long, 0.5 inches wide. Collection: On display at the Montezuma Castle National Monument Visitor Center (Catalog No. MOCA 61). - Oak or Walnut Planting Stick
Description: Planting stick flattened on one end and made from either oak or walnut. Dimensions: 180.5 cm, 3.8 cm diameter. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Fire Stick Fragment and Hearth Board
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan (Wupatki Pueblo, A.D. 1130 – A.D. 1260) Description: This hearth board and wooden fire drill would have been been used together to create fire by friction such as that caused when using a bow drill. Dimensions: (hearth board) 9.1 cm long (3.58 in); (drill) 6.0 (L) x 1.8 (diameter) cm (2.36 x 0.71 in). Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument (catalog cards - hearth, drill). - Rabbit Stick
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Curved wooden (oak?) rabbit stick with a sharpened outer edge. Dimensions: 16 1/2 L x 3 W (inches). Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 167). - Digging Stick Replica
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan (replica) Description: Replica of a Puebloan digging stick made from weathered wood in 1968. One end has been shaped into a blade. Provenience: n/a Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Portion of a Cane Arrow
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Burned end of a cane arrow shaft with notch (nock) and binding. Dimensions: 2 L x 1/4 diameter (inches). Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 3184). - Wooden Spindle Whorl
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Wooden spindle whorl. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 1278). - Bundled Twigs or Grass
Description: Bundled twigs or grass stems tied with cord, perhaps for use in painting. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: Navajo National Monument. - Wooden Weaving Comb
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Wooden weaving comb, fire-blackened and broken in half lengthwise. Dimensions: 2 1/3 L x 3/4 W (inches). Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 3474). - Flute Segment
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Section of sinew-wrapped wooden flute found during the 1934 stabilization project at Keet Seel. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: on display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 1414). - Cactus Fruit Picker(?)
Description: Two pieces of wood bound together with fiber and tentatively identified as a picking tool for gathering prickly pear fruit. Dimensions: L 32.5, W 1.5, and L 33.7, W 1.2 cm. Provenience: Unknown. Collection: WACC, Tonto National Monument (Catalog No. TONT 1569). - Weaving Batten
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Wooden weaving batten, broken in half and fire-blackened. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 3475). - Digging Stick, Alternate View
Description: Digging stick shaped by carving and bending to create a spatulate digging end and rounded handle. Dimensions: L 33.0, Diam 3.5 cm. Provenience: Upper Ruin, Room 17. Collection: WACC, Tonto National Monument (Catalog No. TONT 1438). - Faces of the Past Clay Series
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan/Kayenta/Sinagua Description: Left to right - pinched-nose figurine, Alameda Brown Ware pinched-nose figurine, painted Flagstaff Black-on-white figurine or handle fragment, pinched-nose figurine, painted and inlaid/incised Tusayan Black-on-white ladle handle, and modeled figurine or handle fragment. Collection: Museum of Northern Arizona: Wupatki. - Stick Bundle
Cultural Period: Navajo (Historic) Description: Bundle of wooden sticks, similar to a weaving batten. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 3350).