- Corrugated Jar with Coiled Fillets, Alternate View
Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s) Description: Reconstructed smeared corrugated with two coiled fillets at the shoulder. Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Rm 7, Floor fill. Collection: National Park Service, El Morro. - Mogollon style corrugated jar
Brown jars with indented corrugated patterns like this are characteristic of the Mogollon culture area to the north and east of the Safford Basin. - Crushed Red Ochre
Description: Miniature Verde Brown bowl with coarsely crushed red ochre. Dimensions: Height 1.3, Diameter 3.5 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card - bowl, catalog card - ochre). - Gila Polychrome Eccentric Jar
This jar is especially interesting, as both its shape and its painted decoration indicate a strong connection between its maker and the ancient people who inhabited the Kayenta area of northeastern Arizona. Archaeologists refer to this vessel form a “submarine pot” or a “football pot” and assume that such objects were used as canteens. Vessels of this shape were absent from central and southern Arizona before the depopulation of parts of northeastern Arizona by the people archaeologists refer to as the Kayenta culture. When Kayenta groups moved southward, they contributed much to the ceramic tradition associated with the Salado archaeological phenomenon. The northerners brought their native vessel shapes, vessel manufacturing techniques, and also painted design styles. The vessel in this photograph bears the characteristic “Kayenta bat-wing design” brought to southern Arizona by ancient immigrants. - San Carlos Red-on-brown jar
This jar bears the color scheme and a painted decoration characteristic of Hohokam pottery found throughout southern Arizona, but clues indicating how it was made and the raw materials used to make it reveal that it was produced in the Safford Basin during the 1300s. - Prescott Black-on-Gray with Mend Hole and Cotton String
Description: A Prescott Black-on-Gray bowl rim sherd mended prehistorically by drilling a hole from the exterior. The S-twist cotton string is original and would have joined the hole in this sherd to a matching mend hole in the vessel. Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.3 x 0.7 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Mogollon style corrugated jar
Brown jars with indented corrugated patterns like this are characteristic of the Mogollon culture area to the north and east of the Safford Basin. - Pueblo style corrugated jar
The gray color of this cooking jar is a hallmark of gray utility ware pottery found on the Colorado Plateau in the Kayenta and Cibola regions. - McDonald Corrugated Miniature Bowl
Rotate Description: McDonald Corrugated miniature ceramic bowl. Dimensions: Height of 6.4 cm, diameter of 9.6 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Jeddito Black-on-Yellow Bowl
Rotate Description: Jeddito Black-on-Yellow bowl with two mend holes. Dimensions: Height 3.25 inches, Diameter 7.5 inches. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Black-on-white pitcher with a design characteristic of the Mogollon Rim region
This jar has a brown paste, indicating it probably was made locally in the Safford Basin, but its white slip, black paint, and broad-line design imitate Snowflake Black-on-white pottery from the Mogollon Rim region to the north. - Chavez Pass Polychrome
Rotate Description: Chavez Pass Polychrome bowl. Dimensions: Height 4 in, Diameter 8 in. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Tusayan Black-on-White Bowl
Rotate Description: Tusayan Black-on-White bowl with horizontal handle. Dimensions: Height 7.9 cm, Diameter 17.2 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Bidahochi Polychrome Bowl
Rotate Description: A Bidahochi Polychrome bowl made by adding kaolin paint to the exterior design of a Jeddito Black-on-Yellow bowl. The design is the most sophisticated example from the Tuzigoot collection. Dimensions: Height 9.6 cm, Diameter 19 cm. Collection: On display at the Tuzigoot National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Mogollon style corrugated smudged bowl
The very fine indentations and shiny black polished interior suggest this bowl was imported to the Safford Basin from the Mogollon region to the north and east. Smudging results from deliberately firing the pot with smoke-producing fuel such as pine needles in the interior of the vessel. Experimental evidence suggests that smudging might retard the growth of bacteria in vessels intended for serving food.