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- 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). - Natural Cup-shaped Concretions
Description: Naturally formed concretions found at Wupatki Pueblo and used for grinding pigments. Dimensions: (left) 0.7H x 1.5diam cm (0.28 x 0.59 in); (right) 3.3H x 1.7W cm (1.3 x 0.67 in). Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument (catalog card 1, catalog card 2). - Negative 23
Subject: Stone tools from Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. Date: Probably ca. 1929 Collection: WACC: Casa Grande. Note: This image is also included in NPS's Historic Photos Collection: Catalog No. HPC-000375. - Negative 24
Subject: Ground stone artifacts from Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. Metates and manos are at each end, with a small and large mortar and pestle in the center. A stone ball, ring, and censer are also pictured. Date: Probably ca. 1929 Collection: WACC: Casa Grande. Note: This image is also included in NPS's Historic Photos Collection: Catalog No. HPC-000373. - Nose Plugs
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan (Wupatki Pueblo, A.D. 1130 – A.D. 1260) Description: (top) limestone nose plug from Wupatki Pueblo; (bottom) red argillite nose plug from Wupatki Pueblo. Men wore these nose plugs through a pierced septum. Dimensions: (top) 3.7 cm (H) x 2.2 cm (W) x 1.7 cm (T); (bottom) 0.7 in. Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument (catalog card 1, catalog card 2). - Notched Axe
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Notched, flaked, and polished axe. Dimensions: L 14.1, W 7.5, T 3.0 CM; existing notch W 2.0, D 1.3 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 8, LOWER FILL. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Notched Axe, Alternate View
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Notched, flaked, and polished axe. Dimensions: L 14.1, W 7.5, T 3.0 CM; existing notch W 2.0, D 1.3 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 8, LOWER FILL. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Oblong Abrader
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Oblong vesicular basalt abrader with four abraded surfaces. Dimensions: L 4.1, W 2.7, T 2.5 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), MAIN PLAZA, TEST 1, 40-45 M, 100-150 CM. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - One-handed Mano
Description: Bifacial one-handed mano. Dimensions: Unknown. Provenience: Upper Ruin. Collection: WACC, Tonto National Monument (Catalog No. TONT 4773). - One-handed Mano
Description: One-handed mano also used as a hammerstone. Dimensions: Unknown. Provenience: Upper Ruin. Collection: WACC, Tonto National Monument (Catalog No. TONT 4702).