102/1980
awls.jpg Awl, Close ViewThumbnailsAwls from the Refuse Mound

Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan

Description: Bone awls fashioned from animal long bones. Hundreds of similar awls, made largely from the leg bones of pronghorn antelope, were found in Wupatki Pueblo.

Collection: On display at Wupatki National Monument.