- Jet Pendant
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Conically perforated and bifacially ground broken jet pendant. Dimensions: L 2.9, W 1.5, T 0.4 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Main Plaza, Test 1, 34.65-40.00 M, 10-50 CM. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Square Bone Pin Fragment
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Squared bone pin fashioned from a large bone splint. Well-polished, but with a broken tip; from Atsinna Pueblo. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), MAIN PLAZA, TEST 1, 38.25-40.00 M, 100-150 CM. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - San Pedro Projectile Point
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Shallow corner- to side notched projectile point with a straight base, made on a red-tan chert. Identified by Ashlee Bailey, Northern Arizona University graduate student in Anthropology, as a San Pedro projectile point. Dimensions: L 3.2, W 1.8 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Main Plaza, Test 1. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Heshotauthla Polychrome Bowl
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Repaired Heshotauthla Polychrome bowl with black-on-red interior and white-on-red exterior; identified to type by Barbara Mills, Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of Arizona, and Deborah Huntley, of the Center for Desert Archaeology. Dimensions: DIAM 29.7 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo). Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - St Johns Black-on-red Jar
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: This pot is described in the artifact catalog as a St Johns Black-on-red with an out-turned rim; decorated with wide band and dots on the interior; rim edge painted; and body decorated in the St Johns – Tularosa style with the base undecorated. According to the catalog, the paint is sub-glaze in places, indicating a relatively late St Johns. According to Barbara Mills, Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of Arizona, you see the same design on Reserve/Tularosa Black-on-white and you get it over a wide area in the thirteenth century, almost to the Rio Grande, especially south of Acoma, to Socorro, and west to the White Mountains. Even in the upper San Francisco River area, you will find this design. Dimensions: H 12.3, DIAM 15.0 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), ROOM 12, FLOOR. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Worked Heshotauthla Sherd, Exterior
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Worked Heshotauthla Polychrome sherd; square with round corners. Dimensions: L 3.4, W 3.2, 0.6 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Room 17, Fill. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Copper Cartridge Case, Alternate View
Cultural Period: Historic (1860s – 1920s) Description: Spencer 56-50 copper cartridge case. Provenience: Unknown. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Bone Whistle Fragment
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Bone whistle fragment with one oval stop retained; from Atsinna Pueblo. Dimensions: L 9.3, DIAM 1.2 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 16, FILL. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Worked Heshotauthla Sherd, Interior
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Worked Heshotauthla Polychrome sherd; square with round corners. Dimensions: L 3.4, W 3.2, 0.6 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Room 17, Fill. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Five Awls from Room 10
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: The catalog listed six awls associated with this catalog number, although only five are pictured here. The missing awl is believed to be the ulnar awl pictured in the previous image and described in the catalog as an unworked deer ulna with a broken tip. The other awls associated with this catalog number are described as a slightly curved splinter awl with a rounded end (center), a brown bird bone splinter awl with a missing tip (back-center), a polishing bird long bone awl (front), a splinter awl (front-center), and a polished deer metapodial awl (back). Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 10, Floor fill. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Late 1800s Longrifle, Plate Stamp
Cultural Period: Historic, Anglo (late 1860s) Description: Percussion cap and ball longrifle with a double-set trigger made by J.S. Burson in the late 1800s. The rifle has brass plates on the stock, and bears the stamp “Leman Lancaster PA” on the plate under the hammer and “J.S. Burson, Wabash, Ind” on the barrel. Provenience: Purchased from Mr. E. Norman Flayderman, Greenwich, CN. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Bone Gaming Pieces
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Rectangular polished bone gaming pieces from Atsinna Pueblo. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 11, FLOOR FILL. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Broken Splinter Awl
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Slender splinter awl from Atsinna Pueblo. A relatively fresh break has removed the tip. Dimensions: L 9.4, W 0.6 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 18, Fill. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Western Basketmaker II Point
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: This projectile point is deeply corner to side-notched and is missing the tip; made from a tan, white, and gray mottled chert. Identified by Ashlee Bailey, Northern Arizona University graduate student in Anthropology, as possibly Western Basketmaker II. Dimensions: L 4.5, W 2.5 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 1-N, Lower fill. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Drilled Bone Sub-rectangular Disk
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Worked flat bone from Atsinna Pueblo; sub-rectangular with rounded ends, well-polished, and with a hole drilled near the center. Dimensions: L 7.2, W 4.3, T 0.5 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 1-S, ON FLOOR BESIDE W END OF SOUTH BENCH. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro.