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- Pinedale Black-on-red Jar, Alternate View
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Reconstructed Pinedale Black-on-red jar; one drill hole in body. Dimensions: H 9.4, DIAM (NECK) 4.8, DIAM (MAX) 10.0 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Rm 7, Lower fill. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Kiet Siel Polychrome
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Kiet Siel Polychrome jar. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 15445); on loan from Museum of Northern Arizona. - Overlook Interpretative Panel
The name Wupatki derives from Hopi words that translate literally into "it was cut long," and recalls an event in the histories of the Hopi clans. It is said that people prospered here. In time men began gambling and ignored their crops and prayers for rain. Concerned, their leader severed a ritual object and then went into exile. When he returned the people awoke from their decadence. - Ladle, Alternate View
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Glaze-on-white ladle with black design and a loop at the end of the handle (catalog description). Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 6. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Three Awls from Room 4
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Bone awls from Atsinna Pueblo, including one fashioned from a polished metapodial (back); one fashioned from a polished splinter, with scoring on the interior (front); and one fashioned from a polished metapodial with a modified head and light scoring from cutting (center). Dimensions: L 9.7, W 1.5, T 1.0 (front); L 14.6, W 1.4, T 0.4 CM (back); L 10.7, W 1.2, T 0.7 CM (center). Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 4, Floor. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Community Room
The reconstructed circular structure below you resembles a great kiva, a special room used for rituals and ceremonies. However, excavators found no evidence of a roof or other floor features typical of a kiva. Archeologists speculate that this open-air community room could have served as a central gathering place. Imagine voices carrying to others assembled on the pueblo roof tops. People may have come from nearby and distant villages to participate in ceremonies held here. Maybe rituals focused the community and solved problems, or served to redistribute materials and food. - Worked Pinedale Black-on-red Jar Neck
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Reconstructed worked (chipped, but not ground) Pinedale Black-on-red jar neck (6 sherds). Dimensions: H 5.5, DIAM 8.3 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 6, Set in N. wall at floor level. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Sinagua Point
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan/Sinagua Description: Obsidian projectile point manufactured in the Sinagua fashion. This point was found across the wash from Wupatki Pueblo. Dimensions: 2.7L x 1.5W cm (1.06 x 0.59 in). Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument (catalog card). - Scarlet Macaw Feathers
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Scarlet Macaw feathers bound together with yucca and cotton. Dimensions: 2 3/4 inch diameter (the opening in the center is just large enough to fit a lead pencil tip). Collection: On display at Navajo National Monument (Catalog No. 37). - Bone Chisel
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Worked bone chisel from Atsinna Pueblo; broken in two. Dimensions: L 21.5, W 1.1 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), ROOM 20, FILL. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Six Awls from Room 7
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Six awls from Atsinna Pueblo. Back Row: Polished splinter awl with a beveled head (left); a flat splinter awl with a rounded butt and missing tip (center); and an awl fashioned from an ulna (possibly Lynx rufus) with a modified head and missing tip. Center Row: Aves (possibly turkey) distal tibiotarsus bone awl with a broken tip and a chisel-like end (left), and an awl fashioned from a metapodial (right). Front: A small splinter awl. Dimensions: Back row: L 11.5, W 0.9, T 0.5 CM (left); L 13.2, W 0.9, T 0.6 CM (center); L 9.6, W 1.6, T 0.8 CM (right); Center Row: L 10.5, W 1.3, T 0.4 CM (left); L 5.2, W 1.3, T 1.0 CM (right); Front: L 7.9, W 0.7, T 0.4 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 7, Lower fill. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Awl Made from an Ulna
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Awl fashioned from an ulna (Canis?) with a lightly ground head, polished shaft, and broken tip. Dimensions: L 12.0, W 2.9, T 1.8 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 8. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Historic Acoma Jar
Cultural Period: Historic, Native American Description: Acoma jar with a black-on-white exterior and red around the base. The designs are faded, and the pot has been restored. Provenience: Originally purchased from a private collection by Stephen T. Mather and later donated to the National Park Service. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Spiral
Description: Close-up of pecked spiral near Atsinna Pueblo. Date: June 9, 2010 - Rib Bone Scraper
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Deer rib section used as a scraper. One end angle is cut for 4.5 cm, the tip is broken, and the rib cracked (the cotton string serves to hold the bone together). Fine striae are present perpendicular to the edge. Dimensions: L 7.0, W 2.3 CM Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), MAIN PLAZA, TEST 1, 34.65-38.25 M, 50-100 CM. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro.