The Pueblo Indians
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Winter at Wupatki National Monument (Arizona). Wupatki is an Indian word meaning «greathouse» The entire pueblo encompassed more than 100 rooms and reached a height of three stories. The red stone used in its construction is ideal in that it is easily split into horizontal slabs. The pueblo was inhabited from 1100 to 1220 and may have housed as many as 250 to 300 people. Sinagua Culture.
Turquoise fragments and turquoise jewelry. - Mosaic of a bird with spread wings, made of rectangular and square pieces of turquoise. The middle piece is reddish limestone, also in the shape of a bird, 1.78 inches long, 0.2 inches thick, found in a gravesite, Sinagua Culture, MNA MNA = Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff (Arizona)
Turquoise fragments and turquoise jewelry. - Pendant made with 140 turquoise pieces and an argillite piece at the center, glued to the convex surface of a sea shell, 1.88 inches long, Sinagua Culture, ASM. ASM = Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson (Arizona)
Turquoise fragments and turquoise jewelry. - Jewelry with turquoise mosaic on a sea shell, 2.18 inches. Sinagua Culture, MNA MNA = Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff (Arizona)
Montezuma Castle (Arizona), a cliff dwelling consisting of 20 rooms on five floors, inhabited by the Sinagua from 1100 until 1400. Ladders afforded the only access.
Two necklaces; the smaller one with turquoise stones was found wrapped around the wrist of a child, Sinagua Culture; the longer necklace is 9.6 inches and consists of about 236 stones (one in the shape of a bird). Mogollon Culture. Noseplug of blue-green travertine. Length: 1.6 inches. Sinagua Culture, MNA.MNA = Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff (Arizona)
Anasazi pottery - Bowl, black on gray, with geometric designs (triangles with dots and crossed and zig-zag lines) on the inner surface; mortuary offering. Diameter: 7.24 inches. Wupatki National Monument (Arizona), Sinagua Culture, MNAMNA = Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff (Arizona)
A coiled basket with black geometric pattern. Diameter: 8.4 inches, Sinagua Culture, MNA.MNA = Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff (Arizona)
