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- Prehistoric Corn Cobs
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan Description: Twenty-one prehistoric corn cob fragments and two corn kernels discovered in the El Morro collection and cataloged in 1984. Provenience: Unknown. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Prehistoric Basketry Sifter
Description: A nearly complete basket of twilled yucca with a rim formed by turning and continued weaving of the elements of the basket itself. No foundation used. Dimensions: 14 inches rim to rim. Collection: On display at the Montezuma Castle National Monument Visitor Center (Catalog No. MOCA 31). - Pottery Tools, Alternate View
Description: Brushes, likely yucca, and a tool probably used to scrape pottery made using the coil-and-scrape method. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: Grand Canyon National Park. - Pottery Tools
Description: Brushes, likely yucca, and a tool probably used to scrape pottery made using the coil-and-scrape method. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: Grand Canyon National Park. - Pot Rest
Description: Woven yucca pot rest. Dimensions: 2.6 cm tall; Diam 12.3 cm. Collection: On display at the Montezuma Castle National Monument Visitor Center (Catalog No. MOCA 1747). - Possible Cradle Board Fragment, Alternate View
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Wood fragment identified in the artifact catalog as a possible cradleboard fragment. Epoxy resin was used as a preservative on the wood. Dimensions: L 45.5, W 17.5, T 1.5 CM Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Room 18, Floor. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Possible Cradle Board Fragment
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Wood fragment identified in the artifact catalog as a possible cradleboard fragment. Epoxy resin was used as a preservative on the wood. Dimensions: L 45.5, W 17.5, T 1.5 CM Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Room 18, Floor. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Openwork Cloth, Detail 2
Description: Cloth with a weft-warp openwork design. Dimensions: L 5.0, W 5.0 cm. Provenience: Upper Ruin. Collection: WACC, Tonto National Monument (Catalog No. TONT 630). - Openwork Cloth, Detail
Description: Cloth with a weft-warp openwork design. Dimensions: L 5.0, W 5.0 cm. Provenience: Upper Ruin. Collection: WACC, Tonto National Monument (Catalog No. TONT 630). - Openwork Cloth
Description: Cloth with a weft-warp openwork design. Dimensions: L 5.0, W 5.0 cm. Provenience: Upper Ruin. Collection: WACC, Tonto National Monument (Catalog No. TONT 630). - Oak Planting Stick
Description: Crooked oak planting stick, flattened on one end and found sticking out of trash in the back of a small cave several miles up Sycamore Canyon. Dimensions: 128.5 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Modern Pima Basket
Description: Modern Pima basket. Dimensions: Approximately 10.5 cm in diameter. Collection: On display at the Montezuma Castle National Monument Visitor Center (Catalog No. MOCA 1560). - Modern Hopi Ring Basket
Description: Modern Hopi ring basket/sifter. Dimensions: Approximately 34 cm diameter. Collection: On display at the Montezuma Castle National Monument Visitor Center (Catalog No. MOCA 1557). - Matting Fragment
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Laurie Webster, of the University of Arizona, identified this artifact as a coarse plaited wicker mat-like object. The warp elements are 5.0-6.0 mm in diameter and 1.5-2.0 cm apart, and the weft elements are 5.0-6.0 mm wide and 5.0-6.0 mm apart. Archaeobotanist Karen Adams identified the raw material as five-to-ten year old split oak (Quercus sp.) stems. Dimensions: 16.0 cm long and 16.5 cm wide. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 17, Fill. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Matting and Basket Fragments
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: This mount contains the remains of three different perishable artifacts. The upper left is a rim fragment of a wicker basket. Laurie Webster, of the University of Arizona, describes this basket as having a 1/1 interlaced weave structure with a multiple-element warp, and a rim selvage with 360 degree wrapping around a group of perhaps four twigs. Each warp twig is 1.5 - 1.8 mm in diameter, and the warp channel is approximately 2.0 cm wide. The weft consists of a single twig, 1.0 mm in diameter. There are eight rows of weft per cm. The second artifact (bottom left) consists of the partial base of a wickerwork basket identified by Laurie Webster as having a 1/1 interlacing weave structure with a multiple-element warp. Of the six warp channels in the outermost row of the basket, three contain two twigs and four contain three twigs. The average width of the warp channels is 2.0 cm. The diameter of each warp twig is approximately 2.0 mm, and each weft twig is between 1.5 and 2.0 mm. The basket has seven weft rows per cm. Archaeobotanist Karen Adams identified the raw material as possibly oak (Quercus sp.). A brown substance with off-white specks adhering to the upper surface of the basket may be food residue. The fragments on the right are part of a large, deteriorated, consolidated mat-like object. Laurie Webster identified the weave structure as 1/1 plaiting, and Karen Adams identified the raw material as five-to-ten year old split oak (Quercus sp.) stems. The warp elements are 4.0-6.0 mm in diameter and spaced about 2.0 cm apart, and the weft elements are about 6.0 mm wide and spaced about 2.0 cm apart. Dimensions: 4.5 cm-long by 5.5 cm-wide (upper left); 7.3 cm by 11.0 cm (bottom left); 9.0 cm long and 21.0 cm wide (largest fragment on the right). Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), RM 17, Fill. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro.