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    • 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 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...
    • 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...
    • Peruvian Necklace

    • Peruvian Necklace

    • Unknown

    • Personal Artifact - Adornment - Necklace

    • Three "Nueva Cadiz" necklaces. Left: Mixture of mixed glass Nueva Cadiz beads, shell tubes and glass chevrons with a spindle whorl pendant. Center: A necklace of 28 blue glass Nueva Cadiz beads with a drop pendant. The pendant consists of a...
    • 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...
    • 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 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...
    • 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.
    • Sherd spindle whorl

    • Sherd spindle whorl

    • Unknown

    • Hohokam

    • Medium to large sized perforated disk, manufactured from a Sacaton Red-on-buff jar sherd. Shape is rough and the edges are incompletely smoothed; perforation is slightly off center. This spindle whorl was recovered a free-standing room in a...
    • 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...
    • 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
    • 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...
    • Archaeological survey of Chihuahua, Mexico

    • Archaeological survey of Chihuahua, Mexico

    • Sayles, E. B. (Edwin Booth), 1892-1977

    • Archaeological surveying; Indians of Central America; Architecture, Prehistoric; Indian pottery; Pottery, Prehistoric; Indians of North America; Antiquities

    • (48,813kb pdf) Archaeological survey of Chihuahua, Mexico to determine the culture groups that may have inhabited or influenced the development of culture in the area.
    • 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...
    • Child care staffing regulations, cost impact study

    • Child care staffing regulations, cost impact study

    • Arizona. Office of the Auditor General.

    • Day care centers--Arizona--Finance; Day care centers--Arizona;

    • 50 pages (PDF version). File size: 2204.736 KB. A report to the Arizona State Legislature January 1987, Report No. 87-2.

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