- 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 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). - Arrow Foreshaft
Description: Arrow foreshaft, nearly perfect with only a bit of tip broken off, and part of reed at either end still socketing the other end of foreshaft. The foreshaft is still bound with sinew for holding the foreshaft in the shaft. Dimensions: Approximately 30.5 cm long. Collection: On display at the Montezuma Castle National Monument Visitor Center (Catalog No. MOCA 458). - Arrow Mainshaft
Description: Arrow mainshaft, made of reed grass (Phragmites communis) with a notched end and three split feathers intact and still wrapped with sinew. The other end and wooden foreshaft are missing. Dimensions: 16 inches long. Collection: On display at the Montezuma Castle National Monument Visitor Center (Catalog No. 457). - Axe Handle
Description: A well-used wooden axe handle. The haft, mended with yucca cord, would have wrapped around a stone axe. Dimensions: Approximately 26.75 cm long. Collection: On display at the Montezuma Castle National Monument Visitor Center (Catalog No. MOCA 444). - Axe Handle
Description: Prehistoric axe handle, encrusted with salt; a bit of yucca fiber tie still clings to the end. Dimensions: 7.1 cm from end, stick thinned for 17.4 cm by removal of wood from one side (55.8 x 2.6 cm). Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Barbed Shaft
Description: Tapered wooden shaft with a barbed end; the end opposite the barbs has pitch or gum on it. Dimensions: L 19.1 cm. Provenience: Upper Ruin. Collection: WACC, Tonto National Monument (Catalog No. TONT 265). - Barbed Shaft, Detail
Description: Tapered wooden shaft with a barbed end; the end opposite the barbs has pitch or gum on it. Dimensions: L 19.1 cm. Provenience: Upper Ruin. Collection: WACC, Tonto National Monument (Catalog No. TONT 265). - Barbed Shaft, Detail 2
Description: Tapered wooden shaft with a barbed end; the end opposite the barbs has pitch or gum on it. Dimensions: L 19.1 cm. Provenience: Upper Ruin. Collection: WACC, Tonto National Monument (Catalog No. TONT 265). - 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). - Bow and Arrows
Cultural Period: Puebloan Description: Sinew wrapped bow and arrows. The bow is strung with sinew, and reinforced with the same material, but a crack runs crosswise through the center of the arch. Both arrows have sinew-bound feather fletching and stone points and painted red nock ends. The three-feathered arrow is known to be a replica, and it is likely the other is as well. Provenience: Unknown. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Bow and Arrows
Cultural Period: Navajo Description: Wooden sinew-reinforced bow painted black and bearing a singly-ply twisted rawhide bowstring; solid wooden arrow shaft painted red and tipped with tin/iron point and fletched with long black feathers, from Chinle; modern-made Navajo arrow with a metal point and decorated with blue, red, black, and white paint. Dimensions: 52 1/2 inches long (bow); 23-24 1/2 inches long (arrows); 57 cm (modern arrow). Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument. - Bundled Twigs
Description: Bundled twigs tied with twisted (yucca?) cord. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: Navajo National Monument. - Bundled Twigs or Grass
Description: Bundled twigs or grass stems tied with cord, perhaps for use in painting. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: Navajo National Monument.