- Grant Negative 38
Subject: Textiles and weaving material, Montezuma Castle National Monument. Date: ca. mid-1940s Collection: WACC: Montezuma Castle/Well. - Gaming Piece or Spindle Whorl
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Black-on-orange gaming piece or spindle whorl; on loan from Museum of Northern Arizona. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 15443). - Diamond Design Fabric
Description: Fragment of twilled cotton cloth with a woven design of black and red diamonds on a white background. Dimensions: Approximately 18.5 cm long. Collection: On display at the Montezuma Castle National Monument Visitor Center (Catalog No. MOCA 178). - Cotton Yarn
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan and Hohokam Description: Thirteen strands of cotton yarn dyed blue, black, and various shades of brown. Represented types include single, double, and multiple twists. All strands are from Wupatki Pueblo. The cotton may have been traded up from the Hohokam in the south, either as bulk material or as processed yarn. Dimensions: Avg. 9 cm long x 0.2 cm diam. (3.54 x .08 in). Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument (catalog card - Cotton Skirt
Description: A knotted cotton skirt that would have been worn by a Sinagua woman. Dimensions: Approximately 15 x 20 cm. Collection: On display at the Montezuma Castle National Monument Visitor Center (Catalog No. MOCA 46). - Cotton Cordage
Description: Mass of cotton strings loosely twisted together and likely once attached to something else (perhaps a skirt or apron?). The strings consist of two strands s-spun and z-twisted together, with knots passing between strands and tying to one of the them. Dimensions: Diam. 0.1-0.2 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Cloth
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Woven cloth. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 1675). - Ceramic Spindle Whorl
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan/Kayenta Description: Black-on-white spindle whorl from the trash between rooms in Wupatki Pueblo. Dimensions: 1.96 cm wide x 0.2 cm thick. Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument (catalog card). - Burden Basket
Description: Burden basket decorated with four horizontal bands of red alternating with four bands of black. A note in the artifact catalog indicates "Dr. Haury identified as prob. 19th century." Dimensions: H 39, Diam 52 cm. Provenience: Rock shelter. Collection: WACC, Tonto National Monument (Catalog No. TONT 165). - Brown Cotton Cloth
Description: Brown cotton cloth with alternating light and dark stripes in an over-1, under-1 weave with no selvage. Dimensions: L 24.5, W 12.5 cm (L 6, W 5 in). Provenience: Unknown. Collection: WACC, Tonto National Monument (Catalog No. TONT 1520). - Braided Strap
Description: Three-strand braid that may have served as a sandal strap. Dimensions: L 10.0 cm. Provenience: Upper Ruin. Collection: WACC, Tonto National Monument (Catalog No. TONT 427). - Bone Sewing Tools
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan (Wupatki Pueblo, A.D. 1130 – A.D. 1260) Description: Needles and awls fashioned from animal bone; recovered from Wupatki Pueblo. Collection: Museum of Northern Arizona: Wupatki. - Bone Finishing Needle
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan/Wupatki Pueblo (A.D. 1130 – A.D. 1260) Description: Bone needle with tapering ends. The needle, found in Wupatki Pueblo, might have been used as a finishing needle in weaving. The piece was found broken and has since been mended. Dimensions: 14.4 (L) x 0.6 (diameter) cm (5.67 x .24 in). Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument (catalog card). - Bone Comb
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Bone comb with nine teeth carved into one end and a tapering point at the other. This comb, found in a room in Wupatki Pueblo, may have been used in weaving. Dimensions: 19.5 (L) x 3.3 (W) cm (7.68 x 1.30 in). Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument (catalog card). - 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).