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    • Metate

    • Metate

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    • 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...
    • Arizona Highways. April, 2013

    • Arizona Highways. April, 2013

    • Arizona Highways Commission

    • Arizona; Arizona Highways Magazine; Arizona Department of Transportation

    • CONTENTS


      Editor’s Letter 2

      Contributors 3

      Letters to the Editor 4

      Where is this? 56

      The Journal 5

      Best Restaurants 2013 by Nikki Buchanan 16

      Spring Water: A portfolio by...
    • Mano

    • Mano

    • Archaic, Hohokam, or Patayan

    • Rock art--Arizona; Sacred sites; Petroglyphs;

    • Manos and metates are stone grinding tools. They were used to grind maize, beans, cotton seeds, and other wild grains and seeds.

      This mano was found at the Hedgpeth Hills. It was hand-shaped by a skilled craftsman with the use of a...
    • Mano

    • Mano

    • Unknown

    • Hohokam

    • Whole mano with trough wear from a metate. Manufactured from basalt. A mano is the active element of the two-piece grinding set (mano and metate) used to grind corn for consumption. This mano was recovered from the site of Pueblo Grande just east...
    • Havachachi - Maricopa, Portfolio 2, Plate 64

    • Havachachi - Maricopa, Portfolio 2, Plate 64

    • Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952

    • Maricopa Indians

    • “The Maricopa, of course, possessed the same wealth of native vegetal and animal foods as the Pima, and employed the same methods of gathering and treating them. The fruit of the giant cactus, found in unlimited quantities, is still one of their...
    • Arizona Highways. January, 1972

    • Arizona Highways. January, 1972

    • Arizona Highways Commission

    • Arizona; Arizona Highways Magazine; Arizona Department of Transportation

    • CONTENTS:

      The Institute of American Indian Art 4

      London Bridge at Home in Arizona 6

      Cities of First Americans 16

      Hohokams from the South 34

      The Art of the Old West 40

      Petroglyphs, Pictograms...
    • Gray Wolf land exchange final environmental assessment

    • Gray Wolf land exchange final environmental assessment

    • United States. Forest Service. Southwestern Region.

    • Real property, Exchange of -- Arizona -- Prescott National Forest

    • 91 pages (PDF version). File size: 7613.5 KB. Includes Gray Wolf Land Exchange Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact (September 2006).
    • 1939 Flagstaff All-Indian Powwow Program

    • 1939 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, 1939
    • 1940 Flagstaff All-Indian Powwow Program

    • 1940 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, 1940
    • 1941 Flagstaff All-Indian Powwow Program

    • 1941 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, 1941
    • 1957 Flagstaff All-Indian Powwow Program

    • 1957 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, 1957
    • 1947 Flagstaff All-Indian Powwow Program

    • 1947 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, 1947
    • Cobble Hammerstone

    • Cobble Hammerstone

    • Archaic, Hohokam, or Patayan

    • Rock art--Arizona; Sacred sites; Petroglyphs;

    • This cobble hammerstone may have been used as a striking stone to create and shape mano and metate blanks at Hedgpeth Hills. It may have also been used in petroglyph production. This particular cobble hammerstone appears to have a notch for the...
    • Tree-ring analysis: problems of dating I. the Medicine Valley sites

    • Tree-ring analysis: problems of dating I. the Medicine Valley sites

    • Gladwin, Harold S. (Harold Sterling), 1883-1983

    • Indians of North America; Archaeological dating; Archaeological surveying; ; Tree-rings; Dendrochronology

    • (28,545kb pdf) Critical analysis of similarities and differences in various tree-ring data obtained from the Medicine Valley in an attempt to reach a consensus as to the date of the ruins in the region.
    • Review and analysis of the Flagstaff culture

    • Review and analysis of the Flagstaff culture

    • Gladwin, Harold S. (Harold Sterling), 1883-1983

    • Indians of North America; Antiquities; Architecture, Prehistoric; Pit houses; Tree-rings

    • (61,568kb pdf) Gladwin compares the previous work done on the architecture of the Flagstaff culture by Colton, Spicer, McGregor and Hargrave with tree-ring dating done by Douglass and McGregor and concludes that the tree-rings dates are in direct...

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