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Also on display are a sizeable collection of pre-Columbian artifacts from Mexico and more than 1,000 arrowheads. Centuries-old ceremonial pots, jugs, bowls and working tools provide some anthropological clues into the early lives of the Anasazi and Navajo Indians.
It's always cool to see complete artifacts like the jugs and such.
A sandstone cave museum was always in the Chamberlains’ sights as Garth studied geology, archaeology, and paleontology. The exhibits on display are his personal findings after years of studies and collecting. They include more than 1,000 arrowheads, ceremonial points, jugs, pots, bowls, and working tools from the Puebloan Era.
Top photo: THUMB SCRAPERS are very small. well-worked artifacts. They were used to scrape the meat off the hides of valuable furs.
LL MORTARS & PESTLES: MORTARS WERE USUALLY MADE FROM PECES OF HARD STONE WHICH WERE SHAPED BY PECKING INTO A CUP-LIKE DEPRESSION. MORTARS RANGE IN SIZE FROM FIXED STANDING ROCKS TO SMALL GRINDERS HELD ON ONE'S LAP. SOMETIMES MORTARS ARE USED FOR GRINDING HERBS, PAINT MEDICINE & IN THIS AREA, CATTAILS.
LR Corrugation. Whether corrugation was used to make pots more pleasing to look at or it was a means to make the pot a more efficient conductor of heat is unclear. Perhaps it was done for both purposes. The individual corrugations were made by using some type of tool to make impressions in the wet clay. Sometimes a fingernail was used; although the Moquis used both. All of the pots in this case were corrugated by use of tools.
It's always cool to see complete artifacts like the jugs and such.
A sandstone cave museum was always in the Chamberlains’ sights as Garth studied geology, archaeology, and paleontology. The exhibits on display are his personal findings after years of studies and collecting. They include more than 1,000 arrowheads, ceremonial points, jugs, pots, bowls, and working tools from the Puebloan Era.
Top photo: THUMB SCRAPERS are very small. well-worked artifacts. They were used to scrape the meat off the hides of valuable furs.
LL MORTARS & PESTLES: MORTARS WERE USUALLY MADE FROM PECES OF HARD STONE WHICH WERE SHAPED BY PECKING INTO A CUP-LIKE DEPRESSION. MORTARS RANGE IN SIZE FROM FIXED STANDING ROCKS TO SMALL GRINDERS HELD ON ONE'S LAP. SOMETIMES MORTARS ARE USED FOR GRINDING HERBS, PAINT MEDICINE & IN THIS AREA, CATTAILS.
LR Corrugation. Whether corrugation was used to make pots more pleasing to look at or it was a means to make the pot a more efficient conductor of heat is unclear. Perhaps it was done for both purposes. The individual corrugations were made by using some type of tool to make impressions in the wet clay. Sometimes a fingernail was used; although the Moquis used both. All of the pots in this case were corrugated by use of tools.
Aug 06 2022