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    • Canyon Creek Ruin and the cliff dwellings of the Sierra Ancha

    • Canyon Creek Ruin and the cliff dwellings of the Sierra Ancha

    • Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter), 1904-

    • Cliff-dwellings--Arizona--Sierra Ancha; Excavations (Archaeology)--Arizona--Sierra Ancha; Archaeological surveying--Arizona--Sierra Ancha; Sierra Ancha (Ariz.)--Antiquities; Canyon Creek Ruin (Ariz.)--Antiquities; Gila County (Ariz.)--Antinquities.

    • This paper documents two archaeological expeditions conducted by the Gila Pueblo Foundation in the early 1930s. The first reconnaissance trip collected wood specimens in the Sierra Ancha mountains to conduct tree-ring dating analysis. The second...
    • 1949 Flagstaff All-Indian Powwow Program

    • 1949 Flagstaff All-Indian Powwow Program

    • Flagstaff Chamber of Commerce

    • Flagstaff--History; Powwows--Arizona--Flagstaff; Powwows--Pictorial works; Festivals--Arizona--Flagstaff; Indians of North America--Rites and ceremonies; Indians of North America--Social life and customs; Indians of North America--Pictorial works;...

    • Program of events for the annual Flagstaff All-Indian Pow Wow, 1949
    • Schist spindle whorl

    • Schist spindle whorl

    • Unknown

    • Hohokam

    • Perforated disk, manufactured from micaceous schist, probably used as a spindle whorl. Whorls of this size and weight were suitable for spinning fine yarn. Recovered from a pit located in a habitation area of the Pueblo Grande site. Spindle...
    • Ceramic spindle whorl

    • Ceramic spindle whorl

    • Unknown

    • Hohokam

    • Modeled ceramic whorl, made of a Classic Period redware. Slipped and polished surface is smooth with several small fire clouds. The edges of the perforation do not show heavy damage, although there is some general wear and the circumference of the...
    • Chaiwa - Tewa, Portfolio 12, Plate 414

    • Chaiwa - Tewa, Portfolio 12, Plate 414

    • Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952

    • Tewa Indians; Hopi Indians

    • “The modern style of dressing the hair is like the ancient. Men cut it at the sides level with the lobe of the ear, and in front at such a length that when unconfirmed by the head-band it just covers the eyes; and they part it in the middle and...
    • Arizona Highways. August, 1958

    • Arizona Highways. August, 1958

    • Arizona Highways Commission

    • Arizona; Arizona Highways Magazine; Arizona Department of Transportation

    • CONTENTS

      Indians of Arizona
      Photographs by Joseph Miller; Cartography by George M. Avey 3

      Indians of Arizona
      By Clara Lee Tanner 4

      Navajo Sand Painting
      By Elizabeth-Ellen Long 33

      The Hubbell...
    • Some Southwestern pottery types, series III

    • Some Southwestern pottery types, series III

    • Gladwin, Winifred, 1889-1965

    • Ceramics; Indian pottery; Indians of North America; Antiquities; Archaeological surveying; Pottery, Prehistoric; Hohokam culture

    • (13,721kb pdf) Examination of Red-on-Buff pottery to better understand the Hohokam.
    • Mogollon culture of southwestern New Mexico

    • Mogollon culture of southwestern New Mexico

    • Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter), 1904-

    • Mogollon culture; Indians of North America--Antiquities; Excavations (Archaeology)--New Mexico; Architecture, Prehistoric--New Mexico; Mimbres River Valley (N.M.)--Antiquities; Catron County (N.M.)--Antiquities; Grant County (N.M.)--Antiquities;...

    • This report is concerned with the excavations in two pit house villages of southwestern New Mexico; the first, the Mogollon village, situated on the east bank of the San Francisco River about ten miles north of Glenwood, in Catron County; and the...
    • Hopi Girls Hairstyle

    • Hopi Girls Hairstyle

    • Forrest, Earle R. (Earle Robert), 1883-1969

    • Hopi children; Third Mesa (Ariz.); Hopi Indian Reservation (Ariz.)

    • Old Oraibi, Hopi Indian Reservation, AZ. Hopi girls with their hair braided in whorls on each side of their heads.
    • Hopi Village at Shipaulovi

    • Hopi Village at Shipaulovi

    • Forrest, Earle R. (Earle Robert), 1883-1969

    • Hopi Indians--Clothing & dress--1900-1910; Second Mesa (Ariz. : Mesa)

    • Hopi girl with hair in whorls on each side of her head. Shipaulovi.
    • Sherd spindle whorl

    • Sherd spindle whorl

    • Unknown

    • Hohokam

    • Santa Cruz Red-on-buff perforated sherd disk, made from a piece of a bowl, probably used as a spindle whorl. Whorls of this size and weight were suitable for spinning fine yarn. The Hohokam grew cotton, but also used other fibers. Recovered from...
    • Schist spindle whorl

    • Schist spindle whorl

    • Unknown

    • Hohokam

    • Perforated schist disk, probably used as a spindle whorl. Whorls of this size and weight were suitable for spinning fine yarn. This perforated disk was recovered from a habitation area of the Pueblo Grande site.
    • Ceramic spindle whorl

    • Ceramic spindle whorl

    • Unknown

    • Hohokam

    • Small to medium sized modeled spindle whorl. The whorl has been embellished with punctate decorations around each end of the perforation. One side has them arranged in four lobes radiating from the perforation, like a flower. The other side is more...
    • Ceramic spindle whorl

    • Ceramic spindle whorl

    • Unknown

    • Hohokam

    • Modeled ceramic spindle whorl. Whorls of this size and weight were suitable for spinning fine yarn. This spindle whorl was recovered from a habitation area at Pueblo Grande, located east of the platform mound and surviving ballcourt.
    • Ceramic spindle whorl

    • Ceramic spindle whorl

    • Unknown

    • Hohokam

    • Modeled spindle whorl. There are some chips along the circumference as well as chipping and wear along the margins of the central perforation. This specimen has paste with characteristics of Salt Plain. Whorls of this size and weight were...
    • Sherd spindle whorl

    • Sherd spindle whorl

    • Unknown

    • Hohokam

    • Small to medium sized perforated sherd disk spindle whorl, manufactured from a redware jar sherd. Exterior surface bears a heavy polished slip, while the interior is unpolished and unslipped, but very smooth and even; paste heavily tempered with...

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