Guayule (Parthenium argentatum) | American Southwest Virtual Museum Image Galleries

Common name: Guayule

Scientific name: Parthenium argentatum

Description: Guayule is a short evergreen shrub with lanceolate gray-green leaves and pale yellow to white flowers that are present nearly year-round.

Uses: Guayule may have been used to make rubber balls -- one such ball is reported from the a Hohokam site in southern Arizona.

San Carlos Red-on-brown jar

Gila Red Bowl, Alternate View

Gila Red Bowl, Alternate View

Human Head Figurine

Human Head Figurine

Human Figurine with Headband

Plain-Weave Cotton Cloth

Open-Weave Cotton Cloth

Hohokam-style Frog Carved in Shell

Tump Line in a Tapestry Weave

Grant Negative 25

Grant Negative 26

Grant Negative 27

Santa Cruz Red-on-Buff Miniature Jar

Sacaton or Gila Butte Red-on-buff Sherds

Burned Shell Pendant

Carved Shell Frog

Shell Bird Pendant

Round Shell Bird Pendant

Carved Shell Pendant

The "Pottery Room" in 1957

Murphy's Agave (Agave murpheyi)

Guayule (Parthenium argentatum)

Santa Cruz Red-on-Buff Sherd

Gila Butte Red-on-buff Sherds

Santa Cruz Red-on-Buff Sherds

Snaketown Red-on-buff Sherd

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Author: Kimberley A. Ryan, Northern Arizona University Anthropology Laboratories

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Canon Canon EOS 50D

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