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Stone Beads

ELMO00000990.jpg Circular Argillite PendantThumbnailsStone Beads, Manufacturing Stages

Cultural Period: Ancestral Puebloan, Atsinna Pueblo (A.D. 1275 – mid-1300s)

Description: Beads from the surface of Atsinna Pueblo. Left: Irregularly-shaped bead with a biconical, off-center drilled hole; Right: Cylindrical drilled gypsum (selenite) bead with a slanting conical hole.

Dimensions: Left: W 0.6, T 0.3 CM; Right: L 1.4, D 1.0, L 0.9 CM.

Provenience: LA 99 (Atsinna Pueblo), Surface.

Collection: National Park Service, El Morro.