The Hohokam of Pueblo Grande

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- Casa Grande Red-on-buff jar
- Unknown
- Hohokam
- Partial Casa Grande Red-on-buff jar. Faded geometric decoration is in a plaited design layout. From a habitation area of Pueblo Grande. The frequency of red-on-buff ceramic vessels, never very high, falls dramatically during the Classic Period.
- Casa Grande Red-on-buff jar sherd
- Unknown
- Hohokam
- Large upper body sherd from a Casa Grande Red-on-buff jar. Surface is relatively smooth and even, with some paddle facets remaining. Interior surface is less finished. Both surfaces have some mica. This sherd was recovered from a trashmound at...
- Plummet
- Unknown
- Hohokam
- Small plummet, manufactured from vesicular basalt. A groove has been carved around the wider end. Field notes indicate that this plummet was among the numerous artifacts recovered from a pit that had burned bighorn sheep horns, located in a...
- Turquoise pendant
- Unknown
- Hohokam
- Oval, almost teardrop shaped pendant manufactured from turquoise. Small perforation is slightly off-center at the narrow end. Edges are rounded and smoothed, surfaces well polished. This pendant was recovered from a Preclassic pithouse at the...
- Shell pendant
- Unknown
- Hohokam
- Small frog or toad effigy pendant, manufactured from a juvenile Glycymeris shell. The Hohokam culture is noted for its shell jewelry; they used shell from the Gulf of California and the Pacific coast. Frogs or toads are very common design motifs...
- Salt Red jar
- Unknown
- Hohokam
- Nearly complete, medium to large sized Salt Red jar, from the eastern edge of the platform mound at Pueblo Grande. This type of pottery generally dates to the Classic Period. Note the large spalled area on the shoulderand just below it. This...
- Shell pendant
- Unknown
- Hohokam
- Open diamond shaped pendant, manufactured from a Laevicardium shell. Perforation is drilled into corner shank. Shell is chalky and eroded, off-white in color. This pendant was recovered from a compound room in a habitation area at the site of...
- Metate
- Unknown
- Hohokam
- Trough metate, manufactured from a vesicular basalt or rhyolite. Interior shows some polish from wear. This metate was recovered a pithouse at the site of Pueblo Grande. Fully shaped trough metates with two open ends, like this one, are found...
- Abrader
- Unknown
- Hohokam
- Shaft abrader manufactured from a dark gray basalt, with five "u" shaped grooves that vary slightly with the deepest and widest groove being located in the center of the abrader. Striations run the length of each groove. Tools such as this were...
- Salt Plain seed jar
- Unknown
- Hohokam
- Small ovoid jar of Salt Plan, a seed jar form with a restricted opening and no neck. Smoothly finished, fired to a reddish brown, with two large fire clouds on one side. Wear on base and at rim, reveals sand temper. A few large flakes of gold...
- Painted and carved shell ornament
- Unknown
- Hohokam
- Partial carved and painted shell ornament, possibly a pendant, manufactured from a Glycymeris valve. The band contains an incised and painted geometric design, reminiscent of Classic Period pottery. Remaining paint is black in color. This ornament...
- Mano
- Unknown
- Hohokam
- Mano manufactured from a vesicular basalt. The working surface is smooth, polished, and slightly darker in color. Darker coloration extends up onto the sides of the mano. Recovered from the floor of a pit house at the site of Pueblo Grande. A...
- Ring
- Unknown
- Hohokam
- Ring made from a section of a large bone. Series of V shaped cuts along edges create undulating profile. Most ring shaped ornaments from Hohokam sites are made from shell, while bone is used for ornaments such as hairpins. Recovered from the...
- Whistle
- Unknown
- Hohokam
- Whistle made from a bone from a large bird. Drilled hole is slightly off center. Whistles are identified by a hole drilled into a bone tube. Recovered east of the platform mound at the pueblo Grande site. At Pueblo Grande, whistles generally...
- Footprints
- Hayden, Julian
- Hohokam
- Footprints made by Hohokam, discovered during the excavation of Room 14, a large room with thick walls and unusual construction details on top of the platform mound at the Pueblo Grande site. It is believed the room was never used, due to the...
- Palette
- Unknown
- Hohokam
- Small subrectangular palette manufactured from dark gray phyllite. Specimen has a deeply worn central area with brownish-orange staining. This palette was used to grind small amounts of red pigment. Palette was recovered from the floor of a room...
- Mat impression
- Goddu, Dana
- Hohokam
- Mat impression discovered during the excavation of Room 68 on top of the Pueblo Grande platform mound. Plaited mat impressions like this one are normally found on the underside of ceramic artifacts called comals, flat griddle-like objects. It is...
- Awl
- Unknown
- Hohokam
- Complete awl, manufactured from a bone from the front leg of a deer. The tip shows polish from use. Awls such as this one may have been used to punch holes in organic raw materials during manufacture of various objects, such as baskets or...
- Three-quarter grooved ax
- Unknown
- Hohokam
- Medium sized three-quarter grooved axe, manufactured from a basalt or diorite. This ax was recovered from the floor of a room in the compound adjacent to the platform mound at Pueblo Grande. It is thought that these tools were used for heavy...
- Polishing stone
- Unknown
- Hohokam
- Small polishing stone, of an extremely fine grained sedimentary rock. Surface is very glossy, covered with fine, regular scratches. The reddish orange areas on the surface and in fine cracks appear to be pigment stains. Polishing stones such as...