- Bone Bead
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Bird (turkey?) bone bead with a hollow, slightly tapering tube and oval cross-section; from Atsinna Pueblo. Dimensions: L 2.8, W 2.0, T 1.2 CM. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), ROOM 11. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Cut Long Bone Head, Turkey(?)
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Long bone head (possibly turkey), scored and cut to remove the shaft; from Atsinna Pueblo. Found along with another worked bone with the same description. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 5, FILL AGAINST W WALL, 1 M BELOW SURFACE. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Four Awls from Room 8
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Four awls from Room 8 of Atsinna Pueblo, including a large awl fashioned from a metapodial with a trimmed head, polish along the shaft, and a broken tip (front); a well-polished ans smoothed metapodial awl with a modified head and broken tip (front-center); a bird bone (turkey?) awl with an abraded head, polished shaft, and broken tip (back-center); and a broken splinter awl with a slight bevel at one end and a broken tip (back). Dimensions: L 23.3, W 1.7, T 1.3 CM (front); L 10.9, W 1.2, T 0.7 CM (front-center); L 8.7 W 2.3, T 1.6 CM (back-center); L 4.9, W 0.7, T 0.5 CM (back). Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 8, Lower fill. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Bird Bone Awl from Room 10
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Awl fashioned from the tarsometarsus of a bird (turkey?). Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 10, Floor. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Bird Bone Awl from Room 20
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Weathered Aves (turkey?) tarsometatarsus bone awl (Catalog No. ELMO 1577). Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 20, FILL. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Bone Whistles
Description: Bird bone whistles. The top whistle was made from the ulna of a relatively large bird (possibly a hawk); the nutrient foramen was enlarged, a circular slit was cut for sounding, and then the surface was smoothed. The bottom whistle is also hawk bone (Red-tail or Swainson's), and the middle whistle was made on a turkey's tibiotarsus. Dimensions: Top-10.8 cm, Middle-9.5 cm, Bottom-3.8 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card - top, catalog card - middle, catalog card - bottom).