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Caves of the Reserve Area
PAUL S. MARTIN
JOHN B. RINALDO
ELAINE BLUHM
FIELDIANA: ANTHROPOLOGY
^ VOLUME 42
Published by
CHICAGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
JUNE 11, 1954
FIELDIANA: ANTHROPOLOGY
A Continuation of the
ANTHROPOLOGICAL SERIES
of
FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
VOLUME 42
CV^lCAGo
NATURAL HISTORY'
MUSEUM
FOUNDED „
1954
CHICAGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
CHICAGO. U.S. A. THE UBRARY OF THE
JUN 1^^954
UHWERSITY OF HUNOIS
CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
Fig. 1 . Map showing location of caves.
Caves of the Reserve Area
PAUL S. MARTIN
Chief Curator, Department of Anthropology
JOHN B. RINALDO
Assistant Curator, Archaeology
ELAINE BLUHM
Assistant, Archaeology
FIELDIANA: ANTHROPOLOGY
VOLUME 42
Published by
CHICAGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
JUNE 11, 1954
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BY CHICAGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM PRESS
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Preface
During the summer of 1952, we continued our archaeological re-
searches of the Mogollon culture of west-central New Mexico. We excavat-
ed a large rectangular kiva in an open site and four caves, two of which
contain clifF-houses. This work was done under permits issued to Chicago
Natural History Museum by the Forest Service, Department of
Agriculture.
A report on the kiva is not included in this volume since excavation of
the site has not been finished.
The names of the four caves are: Y Canyon Cave, Cosper ClifT-Dwell-
ing, Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling, and O Block Cave.
Y Canyon Cave is in Gila National Forest and the others are within the
boundaries of Apache National Forest. Y Canyon Cave is located about
fifty miles due east of Reserve, New Mexico; Cosper Cliff-Dwelling is on
the Blue River in east-central Arizona, about fifty miles west and a little
south of Reserve; Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling is about thirty miles west of
Reserve (almost on the Arizona-New Mexico boundary line); and
O Block Cave is about seventeen miles due south of Reserve on
the San Francisco River. The exact location by township, range, and
section of each site is given in Chapter I, "The Caves."
Continuation of our work in Pine Lawn Valley has been made possible
by the interest and generosity of President Stanley Field, Colonel C. C.
Gregg, Director, and our Board of Trustees. We appreciate their trust
and interest.
Our accomplishments would have been few, indeed, had we not had
the support, the interest, and unflagging energy of our loyal friends and
assistants. In this instance, we are proud to be debtors to:
Mr. Robert M. Adams and Miss Marjorie Kelly, assistants to Dr.
Rinaldo; Mr. Thomas P. Alder, photographer and general assistant; Miss
Elaine Bluhm, in charge of cataloguing and of over-all operations at the
Saw Mill Site (large kiva); Miss Vivian Broman; Mr. W. T. Egan, in
charge of excavations at Saw Mill Site; Messrs. Juan Armijo, Wayne
Gaines, Abe Jiron, David Mabon, Alain Petit, Michael Snyder, and
Wayne Spurgeon; and Mrs. Martha Perry, our cook.
7
8 PREFACE
We are also grateful to Messrs. Edward and Robert Atwood, Mr,
Harold Bluhm, Mr. Robert E. Carey, Ranger, Hood Ranger Station,
Mr. John Cosper, Mrs. Mary Crackel, Mr. Clair E. Gurley, Dr. Charles
W. Keney, Mr. Emil O. Kiehne, Mr. Horace Spurgeon and Mr. Frank
Turner.
Miss Lillian A. Ross, Associate Editor, Scientific Publications, has
caught our errors of commission and omission and has made possible, as
before, a format and arrangement of which we are proud.
Mrs. Dorothy Foss, Osteologist, identified the animal bones, and Dr.
Robert Wyant, Curator, Economic Geology, the materials of which the
tools of stone are made. Mr. Robert Skinner and Miss Patricia J. Ander-
son helped with the sorting and statistical work. Mr. Gustaf Dalstrom,
staff artist in the Department of Anthropology, made the line drawings of
sandals, matting, and cordage. Mr. George Thompson made the maps,
plans, sections, and sedation charts.
May, 1953 PAUL S. MARTIN
Contents
PAGE
List of Illustrations 13
List of Tables 16
L The Caves 17
Y Canyon Cave 17
Cosper Cliff-Dwelling 18
Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling 20
O Block Cave 23
Methods of Excavation 24
Excavation Procedure 29
II. Architectural Details 33
Cosper Cliff-Dwelling 33
Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling 37
III. Pottery 53
Pottery Types by Phase 53
Mended, Restored, and Whole Pots 64
Trends in Ceramic Popularity 66
Summary 72
Alphabetical List of Pottery Types 72
IV. Specimens of Stone, Bone, and Clay 87
Manos 87
Rubbing Stones 96
Polishing Stones 99
Metates 101
Small Metate-like Grinding Stones 104
Paint Grinding Stones 104
Worked Slabs 108
Hammerstones 110
Abrading Stones 110
Awl Sharpeners 110
Arrow Shaft Tools 110
Stone Balls 112
Stone Pipe 114
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10 CONTENTS
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Ceremonial (?) Objects 114
Miniature Jar Stoppers (?) 115
Pit Covers 115
Stone Axes 115
Projectile Points 116
Flake Knives 128
Scrapers 128
Discoidal 134
Choppers 135
Drills 136
Saw 138
Gravers 138
Stone Beads 141
Stone Pendants 142
Shell Bracelets 142
Shell Pendants 144
Shell Needle 144
Shell Bead 144
Bone Awls 146
Bone Flakers 147
Antler Flakers 147
Notched Rib 147
Dice 147
Bone Dart Bunt 148
Bone Tubes 149
Worked Sherds 149
Figurine 152
Animal Effigies 152
Pot Covers 152
Miniature Ladles 152
Pigments 156
Crystals 157
Summary 157
V. Cordage, Sandals, and Textiles 159
Cordage 159
Fur and Feather Cord 163
Knots 164
Fiber Coils 165
Carrying-Loop Chain 165
Sandals 166
Plain Weave Cloth 170
CONTENTS 1 1
PAGE
Netting 171
Basketry 173
Twilled Matting 173
Plaiting 176
Summary and Conclusions 178
VI. Wooden Artifacts 181
Atlatls and Atlatl Equipment 181
Bows and Arrows 185
Digging Sticks 189
Bark and Wood Trowels 190
Bark and Wood Hoes 191
Fire Drill Hearths 192
Fire Drills 193
Spatulas 194
Split-Stick Tongs 194
ToggIes(?) 195
Burred Sticks (Feather Carders?) 195
Charred, Shouldered, Pointed Sticks 195
Wooden Awl 196
Yucca Leaf Spine Needle 196
Wooden Cylinders 196
Painted Sticks 198
Tablitas 200
Reed Cigarettes 202
Reed Flute 203
Wooden Die 204
Pahos 204
Miscellaneous Objects 206
Summary and Conclusions 208
VH. Summary 212
Bibliography 216
Index 223
List of Illustrations
TEXT FIGURES
PAGE
1 . Map showing location of caves Frontispiece
2. View of Y Canyon Cave 18
3. View of Cosper ClifT-Dwelling from below; Blue River in foreground . . 19
4. View of Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling from tower; Rooms F and G in center
foreground 21
5. View of O Block Cave from below 25
6. View of interior of O Block Cave 27
7. Interior of O Block Cave, showing excavated area 28
8. Plan and sections of O Block Cave 30
9. Plan and section of Cosper Cliff-Dwelling 32
10. Interior of Room A, Cosper Cliff-Dwelling; firepit in foreground; white
line indicates level of fill before digging 33
11. Masonry, Room A (north wall), Cosper Cliff-Dwelling 34
12. Cosper Cliff-Dwelling; doorway to Room B at left; remnant of wall of
Room A at right 35
13. Interior of Room B, Cosper Cliff- Dwelling 36
14. Plan and sections of Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling 38
15. Doorway to Room A, Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling 39
16. Doorway from Room E to Room B, Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling 41
17. Room D, Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling; slab-sided firepit, left center; post-
holes and storage pits in floor. White line on wall indicates original
depth of fill 43
18. View of central block of rooms, Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling 44
19. Ceiling of Room F, Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling 45
20. Room G, Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling, before excavation 47
21. Room K, Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling 49
22. Trash Area, Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling 51
23. Trash Area, Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling; detail of storage pit with bit of
masonry at right 52
24. Chart showing relationships of principal pottery types by selected squares
and levels in O Block Cave 54
25. Chart showing relationships of principal pottery types by selected squares
and levels for Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling, Cosper Cliff-Dwelling, South
Leggett Pueblo, Wet Leggett Pueblo, and Three Pines Pueblo .... 55
26. Reserve Black-on-White and Tularosa Black-on-White potsherds .... 57
27. Potsherds: Wingate Black-on-Red, St. Johns Polychrome, Pinedale Black-
on-Red with sub-glaze, Tularosa White-on-Red, Tusayan Polychrome,
Encinas Red-on-White(?), San Francisco Red Punched, and Cerros
Red-on-White 58
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14 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE
28. Potsherds: Punched Corrugated; Gray ware, corrugated neck, tooled; Alma
Neck Banded; Plain and Indented Corrugated; Alma Plain with appli-
qued nodes; Plain Corrugated; Mimbres Indented Corrugated; and
MacDonald Indented Corrugated (?) 59
29. Smudged Decorated potsherds 60
30. Puerco Black-on-White and Mimbres Black-on-White potsherds .... 61
31. Alma Plain variant with fugitive red interior. Bowl from Square A-2,
level 2, O Block Cave 62
32. Miniature jars from Trash Area G, Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling 62
33. Incised Corrugated jar from Room A, pit, Cosper Cliff-Dwelling .... 63
34. Indented Corrugated Smudged Interior bowl from Room A, floor, Cosper
Cliff-Dwelling 64
35. Plain and Indented Corrugated jar from Room J, level 4, Hinkle Park
Cliff-Dwelling 65
36. Reserve Smudged bowl from Trash Area F, levels 3-5, Hinkle Park Cliff-
Dwelling 66
37. Three Circle Neck Corrugated jar from Square A-3, level 2, O Block Cave . 67
38. Tularosa Indented Corrugated jar from Room A, pit, Cosper Cliff-Dwelling 68
39. Tularosa Fillet Rim pottery bowl from Square C-2, levels 1 and 2, O Block
Cave 69
40. Tularosa White-on-Red bowl from Room A, Cosper Cliff-Dwelling ... 69
41. Schematic diagram of stratigraphy in O Block Cave 71
42. Occurrence of ground and pecked stone artifacts by phases 88
43. Occurrence of projectile points and blades by phases 89
44. Occurrence of knives, scrapers, drills, and ornaments by phases .... 90
45. Occurrence of bone and baked clay artifacts by phases 91
46. Oval and rectangular two hand manos 92
47. Rectangular two hand manos 93
48. Oval and rectangular one hand manos 94
49. Rectangular two hand manos with two grinding surfaces 97
50. Rubbing stones 98
51. Polishing stones 99
52. Small metate-like grinding stone and slab type metate 102
53. Shallow basin type metate from O Block Cave 103
54. 55. Trough type metates from Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling 105
56. Pit cover and paint grinding stones 106
57. Worked slab from Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling 108
58. Hammerstones and axes 109
59. Arrow shaft tools, awl sharpeners, and abrading stones Ill
60. Stone pipe, ceremonial objects, double stone balls, jar stoppers, and single
stone balls 113
61-64. Projectile points 117,119,123,126
65. Projectile points or blades from O Block Cave 127
66. Knives: biface and random flake types 129
67. Scrapers: large, rough, thick, random flake, and small, rough, thick types 131
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 15
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68. Scrapers : thin flake, small keel-shaped, and serrate types 132
69. Biface, hollow-edged, and end scrapers 133
70. Choppers 135
71. Drills, gravers, and saw 137
72. Pendants, bracelets, needle, and beads 143
73. Bone awls 146
74. Bone tubes, dice, flakers, dart bunt, and notched rib 148
75. Antler flakers 150
76. Worked sherds, human figurine, and miniature ladle fragments . . . . 151
77. Animal effigies 153
78. Pot cover from Room E, Hinkle Park ClilT-Dwelling 154
79. Occurrence of unworked animal bones from Squares A-2, B-1, C-2,
O Block Cave, and Trash Area D, Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling . . . .155
80. Occurrence of cordage types by phases 160
81. Occurrence of knots and cordage artifacts by phcises 161
82. Occurrence of sandals and textiles by phases . . 162
83. Drawings of cordage types 163
84. Two-warp wickerwork, four-warp wickerwork, and plaited sandals. ... 167
85. Drawings of two-warp wickerwork, four-warp wickerwork, and plaited
sandals 167
86. Large rabbit-net, tied with granny knots, from Three Circle Phase level of
O Block Cave. Right : drawing of granny knot 171
87. Two-rod-and-bundle, bunched foundation basket fragment from O Block
Cave and drawing showing construction 172
88. Fragment of large twilled mat from O Block Cave 174
89. Small fragment of twilled mat with design produced by shift in direction of
pattern and detailed drawing of section showing method of weaving to
create shift in pattern 175
90. Fragments of wide and narrow plaited bands 177
91. Occurrence of wooden artifacts by phases 180
92. Atlatl fragment; wooden cylinder; atlatl dart foreshaft, slotted; charred,
shouldered, pointed stick; notched stick; spatula; toggle; burred stick;
and cigar-shaped object 182
93. Functional bows; ceremonial bow, flat cross section; ceremonial bow,
round cross section 183
94. Digging sticks and ceremonial bow 184
95. Arrow mainshafts and fragments of mainshafts with foreshafts inserted 1?6
96. Shouldered arrow foreshafts and tapered arrow foreshafts 188
97. Notched bark hoe, bark trowel, bark hoe with hole for hiifting, and notched
wooden hoe with bark attached 191
98. Drilled piece of wood, cylindrical fire drill hearth, plano-convex fire drill
hearth, fire drill, and fire drill also used as hearth 193
99. Reed cigarettes, cane tube painted red, yucca leaf spine needle, wooden
awl, wooden die, and split-stick tongs 197
100. Peeled and unpeeled painted sticks 199
101. Tablitas 201
102. Reed flute, corn cob mounted on stick, knob-ended pahos(?), and ring paho 205
16 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
TABLES: SHERD ANALYSES p^^^
PAGE
1. Y Canyon Cave 74
2. Cosper Cliff-Dwelling 77
3. Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling 78
4. O Block Cave 80
L The Caves
5>' John B. Rinaldo
Y CANYON CAVE
(Figure 2)
Location and Physical Description
Y Canyon Cave is the largest of a series of small caves in a conglomerate
cliff on the north side of Y Canyon, a tributary canyon draining about
two miles east to the San Augustin Plains. This site is located in Section
21, T. 7 S., R. 15 W., N.M.P.M., at an elevation of approximately 7,171
feet. It is actually more of a rock shelter than a cave, being of greater
length than depth, and with a high arched roof which admits direct sun-
light to the interior of the cave most of the day. It is situated about eighty
feet up on the steep side of the canyon talus, where it overlooks a wide
canyon floor sloping to the east at a very gentle gradient. At the foot of the
talus a shallow dry gully flanked by scattered yellow pines meanders
through the canyon. The flora is much like that of Tularosa Cave.
The mouth of the cave opens to the south and aflTords an excellent view
both up and down the canyon. Although this cave mouth may be seen
easily from the valley floor, the steep gradient of the rocky talus slope
makes the cave somewhat difficult of access.
Surface Indications
The cave floor is approximately fifty feet wide and thirty feet deep.
However, the walls converge at the rear, so that there it is only twelve feet
wide. The high broad arch of the cave permitted driving rain and snow to
enter, so that there were no dried weeds, leaves, or other perishable
materials in the front part of the cave. Some tumble weed and yucca
leaves at the rear of the cave gave evidence of dry conditions there; the
surface of the midden was fairly level but littered with large and small
rocks. The cultural debris on the surface consisted of pottery, flint chips,
and projectile points. Fragments of wooden or textile artifacts were lack-
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CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
Fig. 2. View of Y Canyon Cave.
ing. Both plain and textured pottery were picked up by the survey. Some
scattered manure indicated that the area had been used as a shelter for
cattle and sheep.
COSPER CLIFF-DWELLING
(Figure 3)
Location and Physical Description
Cosper Cliff-Dwelling is located on the ranch of Mr. John Cosper,
about twelve miles by road south of the present Blue, Arizona, Post Office
Fig. 3. View of Gosper Cliff-Dwelling from below; Blue River in foreground.
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20 CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
(Joy's Ranch), in Section 1, T. 3 N., R. 30 E., G. and S.R.M., at an ele-
vation of about 5,000 feet.
The cave itself is a small one situated at the top of a rocky talus cliff
about fifty feet above the Blue River, which in this place flows through a
narrow canyon between towering cliffs. The surrounding country is
rugged and semi-arid. Live oak, mesquite, cactus, and agave are common.
However, some cottonwood trees grow along the river in the wider
reaches of the canyon. Just where the Indians planted their crops is not
certain, although there are several flats in the canyon and these may have
been utilized for agriculture except during spring floods. Even in dry
years the Blue River carries water. It seems likely, therefore, that in the
twelfth and thirteenth centuries water would have been abundant. There
may have been some irrigation from this stream, although we have no
evidence on this point. We do know, however, from the pottery types,
that trade up and down this river was common.
Surface Indications
The cave appears to have originated from a fissure between a soft con-
glomerate stratum and a harder surrounding breccia formation. The back
of the cave and the floor consist of this conglomerate; the roof and side
walls are of breccia. The opening is more or less rectangular in shape and
the inner walls of the cave are fairly vertical. The cave had been divided
into two rooms by a crude masonry wall. The front wall of the northern-
most room (Room B) is bedrock, and entry into this room is made through
a rather small hole in this bedrock. On the other hand, a small remnant
of masonry laid on the bedrock in front of Room A indicates that this room
once had a masonry front wall.
The surface of the midden in both rooms was covered with small rocks,
gravelly sand, corn cobs, yucca quids, cactus thorns, brown fibers, and
potsherds. The pottery on the surface was predominantly of textured
types.
HINKLE PARK CLIFF-DWELLING
(Figure 4)
Location and Physical Description
This cliff-dwelling is situated in a yellow pine and oak forest in the San
Francisco Mountains on a divide between the Blue and the San Francisco
River drainages. It is hidden from direct view in the end of a small box
canyon just off the Forest Service road to Saddle Mountain Fire Tower.
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22 CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
On the Forest Service map of Apache National Forest it is located in Sec-
tion 7, T. 3 N., R. 21 W., N.M.P.M., at an elevation of 7,200 feet. It is
ten miles west and a little south of Pine Lawn Camp.
The cave opening faces southward and is about fifty feet long and ten
feet high at the center. The greatest depth of the cave is about twenty-
eight feet. Some time during the past century the front part of the cave
roof broke off in gigantic pieces and smashed the outer rooms of the
building. The boulders not only demolished portions of the building but
also hid and somewhat protected it from all but the most curious. They
also made excavation very difficult.
Surface Indications
Before excavation nine rooms were in evidence, all contiguous with the
exception of Room H, which stood up above the midden as a doorway
and a short section of wall, less than a meter east of Room F. In the center
front, Room G above Room F formed a two-story structure. It is likely
that there was a second-story room over Room K, but that and any other
portions of the two-story building were destroyed by the gigantic rock fall.
The other rooms were grouped around this two-story structure in a gen-
eral plan conforming to the oval shape of the cave.
The outermost rooms (I, J, K) were completely filled with rock and
trash more than a meter deep, the rear rooms (A, B, C, etc.) contained
shallower accumulations, and Room G, the second-story room, had vir-
tually none. Fallen wall slabs and a certain amount of adobe occurred on
the surface in all the rooms. In the dark back rooms these wall fragments
were apparently the result of the eff"orts of curiosity seekers to provide
light and ventilation by knocking holes in the outer walls.
Some larger slabs from the roof had fallen onto the surface of a trash-
filled area in the east end of the cave. This rather large area revealed no
evidence of rooms before excavation and was designated as "Trash Area."
The surface of the interior, between the wall and the roof slabs, was
covered with bat, rat and other animal manure, sand, brown fibers, corn
cobs, pinyon nut shells, acorns, walnuts, grass, pine cones, and some cane
fragments. There were also manos, potsherds, flint chips, and portions of
worked slabs scattered around.
On the north side of the "Trash Area" and about 1.5 meters above the
cave floor was a shelf, a natural crevice that extended back into the bed-
rock about 2 meters, and that was about 75 cm. high in front and only
about 20 cm. high in the rear. On this shelf there was also an accumulation
of cultural debris, sand, and manure.
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O BLOCK CAVE
(Figures 5-7)
Location and Physical Description
O Block Cave is one of a series of large and small caves which lie under-
neath and between massive rock bluffs that overlook a small park-like
valley some two hundred feet above and a third of a mile east of the San
Francisco River. It is situated in Section 16, T. 8 S., R. 19 W., N.M.P.M.,
at an elevation of about 6,260 feet.
The cave is hidden from the view of persons passing down the river
canyon by a knoll and a thick growth of yellow pine, juniper, and oak
trees, and from the direct view of persons moving through the small upper
valley by its location around the corner of a prominent bluff. Thus it es-
caped the observation of most of those passing by and, with the exception
of some shallow pits, remained untouched by digging.
When viewed from below (fig. 5), the mouth and roof of the cave
resemble a vaulted arch some sixty feet high. The ground on the slope be-
low the cave is carpeted patchwork fashion with a thick layer of oak leaves
and pine needles which have accumulated in pockets between the small
boulders and the rotten logs with which the slope is strewn. Here and
there clumps of grass grow.
Not far from the cave, both the upper valley and the river canyon
broaden out into flat, wide stretches of land that furnish good grazing for
cattle at present and could easily have been arable land under slightly
better climatic conditions. Possibly it was here that the corn was raised
that we found in our excavations.
The cave appears to have originated as a rock fault between the huge
breccia boulders which form the ceiling and the walls. The roof rock is
split vertically in several places and enormous boulders in the center of the
floor show how great sections of the roof have fallen in at some time in
the past.
The cave floor was divided into two areas by the largest of these
boulders — a lower cave with a fairly deep midden deposit, and an upper
cave featured by two narrow tunnels at the rear, in which the deposit was
shallower and consisted predominantly of rock, sand, and other natural
detritus.
Surface Indications
Before excavation, the midden surface of the lower cave was littered
with com cobs, fragments of matting, arrow foreshafts, bow fragments,
24 CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
pottery, flint chips, and other occupational debris. In one front area
(Square A-3) the roof of the cave sloped down to within a few inches of
the midden, but inclined upward toward the rear. Although this feature
hampered excavation in the front section or two, it had protected the
wooden artifacts and other perishable materials from rains which pene-
trated into the interior of the other side of the cave or dripped down
through the cracks in the overhang near the center. For this reason many
of the perishable objects were found on this side of the cave, and here
there were some scattered pits made by curiosity seekers.
Hornets lived in a cleft in the rock, and on occasion deer and bear or
their spoor were seen in the vicinity and even up in the cave. On the other
hand, there was less animal manure on the surface than in the other caves
excavated by us; this cave did not appear to have been extensively used
by domestic animals or even by rats and bats.
The pottery collected from the surface consisted primarily of Alma
Plain, although a fair number of plain corrugated, indented corrugated
and even black and white sherds were found. Some flint chips were
observed. x
METHODS OF EXCAVATION
To facilitate the keeping of records and as a horizontal control over the
find spots of specimens, cave areas not included in rooms were divided into
sections two meters square. However, a different system of designation was
used in each cave. In O Block Cave, the four trenches were designated by
the letters A to D, and the squares or subdivisions of the trenches were
numbered consecutively from the back of the cave toward the mouth (fig.
8). In Y Canyon Cave, the two trenches were differentiated by labeling
the east trench Sq. 5R1 to distinguish it from Sq. 5 of the central trench.
The other squares of the central trench were numbered (1 to 4) from the
mouth of the cave toward the rear. These were also two-meter squares.
The trash area of Hinkle Park Cliff"-Dwelling was divided off" into sections
of approximately equal size designated by letters from A to G (see map,
fig. 14). The rooms of the two cliff"-dwellings were designated by letters
in the order of their excavation. Room A, Cosper Cliff-Dwelling, was at
first divided into north and south halves, but as excavation proceeded
this division did not appear to yield significant differences, and the floor-
level was excavated as a unit.
Generally, levels 20 cm. in thickness were used as a vertical control.
However, this standard was modified in a few instances; for example, the
surface levels of all the caves were excavated to a varying depth to achieve
a level floor so that subsequent levels might be of uniform thickness.
Fig. 5. View of O Block Cave from below.
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26 CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
Natural levels were noted in both Y Canyon Cave and O Block Cave.
However, with two exceptions the upper and lower limits of these "beds"
were so vague as to be virtually indistinct. In two exceptional instances —
a gray ashy layer in Y Canyon Cave (level IB) and a yellowish sand layer
in O Block Cave — natural levels were used as vertical controls. However,
the majority of the levels were excavated in the arbitrary 20 cm. thickness.
The Fill
The fill in Y Canyon Cave consisted of a brown fiber layer and an ashy
gray layer. The brown fiber layer was confined to the uppermost level
(lA) and the ashy gray layer to the lower artificial levels (levels IB
and 2). At the bottom, in level 2, gravel and bedrock were encountered.
In O Block Cave the top levels consisted of gray dust with a consider-
able admixture of fiber. Below this and blending into it was an ashy level
with occasional distinct lenses of ash and charcoal. This level also con-
tained large sections of yellow pine bark. Underneath the ashy fill the soil
grew steadily darker, with some diminution in charcoal and ash content.
The bottom layer was composed of sand and loose rock ranging in color
from a yellowish buff to a pinkish tan. Toward the mouth of the cave this
sand layer was sterile. In the rear of the cave, excavations were carried
through this sand to bedrock.
There were also some differences of more limited extent. Next to the
rear wall of O Block Cave there was a considerable element of fine light-
colored pink to gray sand mixed into the top two levels (about 40 cm.).
This sand is believed to have weathered out of the rear wall. At the mouth
of the cave, especially near the center, moisture had been driven in by
storms and the top levels were more earthy in nature. The average depth
of occupational debris in this cave was 172 cm.
The fill in Hinkle Park Cliff- Dwelling and Cosper Cliff-Dwelling was
uniform in nature, consisting of bat, rat, and other animal manure, fine
sand, some gravel, much fiber, corn cobs, nut shells, acorns, and an occa-
sional grass nest. The depth of fill varied from room to room but averaged
about one meter. All of the fill in the Cosper Cliff-Dwelling rooms and in
the Trash Area and rear rooms of Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling was dry.
However, the east end of the Trash Area and the unprotected front
rooms at this cliff-dwelling had been subject to moisture. In all of the
caves a certain amount of condensation was evident in the levels next to
bedrock, walls or floor. Although this moisture was not always sufficient
to disintegrate perishable materials completely in the late cliff-dwellings,
it was enough to make textiles and wooden artifacts found in these areas
very fragile.
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EXCAVATION PROCEDURE
Before actual digging began in each cave, the undivided area to be
excavated was staked out into a grid system of co-ordinates; a metal tape
was used for measurements and to check angles. Then a level chalk line
was set up between a nail driven into the wall of the cave at one end of the
central trench and a point at the other end of the trench (a nail driven
into the roof in O Block, a point on an outer wall at Hinkle Park ClifF-
Dwelling, and a stake at Y Canyon Cave). This chalk line was made
level by means of a carpenter's level and served as a datum for the deter-
mination of vertical positions and the leveling of the lower limits or floor
of the levels.
The initial trenches in Y Canyon Cave, O Block Cave, and Cosper
Cliff-Dwelling were started at the outer edge of the cave, as close to the
center of the area to be excavated as possible. However, in Hinkle Park
Cliff-Dwelling, the difficulties of finding a practical wheelbarrow path
for the removal of the fill, due to the arrangement of the rooms and the
character of the gigantic rock fall in front necessitated starting at the back
of the cave. This was the darkest of the caves and we had to use artificial
light (from large flashlights) anyway, whereas in the other caves we had
the advantage of natural light on the face of the profile or vertical wall into
which we were digging. In many difficult areas of Hinkle Park Cliff-
Dwelling the fill had to be loaded into a bucket and passed up to the
wheelbarrow.
As a rule, material was dug from a vertical face with a trowel or a small
shovel, accumulated in a pile, and shoveled into a wheelbarrow. It was
then taken out of the cave and poured on a large rigid sieve situated just
over the edge of the talus slope. As it was put through the sieve the cul-
tural material was put into boxes with fine mesh hardware cloth bottoms
(to allow the dust to filter out).
As each section was completed the cultural material in these boxes was
sorted out, and materials such as plants, bone, stone, pottery, and textiles
were placed in separate sacks marked with the find spot designation.
Large stone artifacts such as metates and manos were marked with lumber
crayon with the find spot designation and kept in a separate pile for
cataloguing, photographing, and selection of type specimens to be re-
turned to the museum. Records were made at this time of the soil content
of each section, the cultural materials found therein, artifact associations,
and other pertinent information. Very few drawings were made of soil
profiles because the distinctions between the natural levels were so vague
as to render any measurements and drawings subjective.
SCALE
OUTLINE OF GAVE
OUTLINE OF EXCAVATION
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MIDDEN
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Fig. 8. Plan and sections of O Block Cave.
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Rock falls of large slabs and boulders, which were particularly bother-
some in the upper levels of the outer rooms at Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling
and in the lower levels of O Block Cave, were broken up into portable
pieces with a long-handled sledge hammer and a heavy four-foot pry bar.
METERS
SECTION X — X'
Fig. 9. Plan and section of Cosper Cliff-Dwelling.
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IL Architectural Details
By Paul S. Martin
COSPER CLIFF-DWELLING
(Figure 9)
The shelter or clifT-pueblo that lies within the cave is very crude. There
are only two rooms, separated by a masonry wall. The fill was about 50
cm. to 1 meter deep; near the door in Room A was a layer of Cottonwood
bark laid flat, 1 meter by 50 cm.
Fig. 10. Interior of Room A, Cosper Cliff-Dwelling; firepit in foreground; white
line indicates level of fill before digging. Meter stick in background; arrow (50 cm.
long) points north.
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Fig. 11. Masonry, Room A (north wall), Cosper Cliff-Dwelling,
in foreground.
Meter stick
Room A
(Figures 10, 11)
Shape: Very irregular; more or less rectangular; conforms to form of
cave.
Walls: Three sides of room formed by cave walls. Between this room
and Room B was a crude wall of masonry; height 1.60 meters; thickness
25-30 cm.; water- worn boulders of basalt and granite, most of which were
unshaped; a few roughly hewn; laid in thick adobe cushion with many
angular pebbles tucked in around larger stones; no plaster.
Doorway: Entrance to room now merely a gaping hole in cave wall.
Formerly there may have been a wall across this hole, because there is a
short, stub end of wall on the south side of the doorway.
Floor: Unplastered bedrock (conglomerate).
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Pits: Two; one in the fill (40 cm. from southwest corner) 45 cm. by 1.50
meters and 50 cm. deep; contained 2 pots (incised corrugated and indent-
ed corrugated jars) and mano. The other opposite the doorway; irregular
in shape; 1 meter by 1.40 meters, and 45 cm, deep; contained burned
rocks and much charcoal.
Firepit: See above under Pits.
Ceiling: Cave roof; 3.10 meters high.
Phase: Tularosa.
General Comments: Probably used primarily as a dwelling (firepit and
bedding of grass). Later used as a trash area.
Fig. 13. Interior of Room B, Cosper Cliff-Dwelling. Meter stick in background;
arrow (50 cm. long) points north.
Room B
(Figures 12, 13)
Shape: Irregular; north side pointed; conforms to irregularities of cave.
Walls: Three walls of bedrock; fourth or south wall, of masonry, shared
with Room A. Height of opening 45 cm.; width 75 cm.
ARCHITECTURAL DETAILS 37
Doorway: A natural opening in rock, unimproved by means of masonry.
Ventilator Openingi?): Over doorway, another natural hole in rock;
height 30 cm.; width 45 cm.
Floor: Unplastered bedrock; uneven.
Pits: None.
Firepit: None.
Ceiling: Cave roof.
Phase: Early Tularosa.
General Comments: Probably used as a dwelling room. Along south wall
and east walls was a horizontal pole supported by forked upright logs.
Since the lower ends of the props were not set in pos tholes, we are of the
opinion that this wooden framework is not prehistoric.
HINKLE PARK CLIFF-DWELLING
(Figure 14)
Shape: Rooms built to conform to oval shape of cave.
Number of Rooms: Eleven, all contiguous, and a large area designated
as "Trash Area."
Number of Stories: Two, in one place; Room G is above Room F and
forms a second story. Probably there was a second story over Room K, and
it and other portions of a two-story building were destroyed by a gigantic
rock fall.
Room A
(Figure 15)
Shape: More or less circular.
Walls: Laid directly on sandstone bedrock; the lowest portion of the
wall (25-60 cm. up), also bedrock, had been cut and scraped away to fit
the needs of the builders. Dimensions: 20 to 50 cm. thick; greatest height
(north wall) 1.75 meters; least height (south wall) 1,13 meters. Construc-
tion: the corners were probably bonded, but they were covered with
adobe plaster which we did not care to disturb. The core was composed of
gravelly adobe and small angular stones, although there are many
through stones. Type of masonry: small to medium flat slabs in a thick
adobe cushion; resembles some masonry at Sierra Ancha (Haury, 1934,
pi. XXVI, left). Materials used: igneous rock and sandstone; the size of
the stones varied from thin slabs (about 4 cm. thick and 50 cm. long) to
rectangular blocks (15 cm. thick and 40 cm. long). Surfaces: exposed
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Fig. 14. Plan and sections of Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling.
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faces of some stones were roughly tooled; others unshaped; dimpling
absent. Joints: not consistently broken. Spalls: mostly false (wedge-
shaped; used to swell mortar); a few, true- bearing spalls (touching stones
above and below to transmit pressure); occasional sherds. Mortar: red to
orange pink; sandy and gravel-tempered; could be scratched with a finger
nail. Plaster: single layer, 0.5 cm. to 2.0 cm. thick; undecorated. In good
condition and so well applied that masonry was not visible. Appearance
fairly regular, in areas in which plaster had scaled off or we scraped it off.
Our feeling was that the appearance of the masonry was unimportant to
the builders, since they expected to plaster over all stonework.
Doorway: One; in east wall; height 50 cm., width 30 cm. Jamb, lintel,
and sill of masonry, well covered with plaster. The sill was 35 cm. above
the floor. No loops; the closing of the chamber was provided for by lateral
Fig. 15. Doorway to Room A, Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling. Meter stick against
wall of Room A; arrow (50 cm. long) points north.
recesses or a "stop" of adobe against which a vertical door-slab leaned.
No T-doorway.
Ventilator Opening and Niches: Vent opening 25 cm. above doorway;
height 16 cm.; width 15 cm. There was one very small hole in the south
wall at floor level, opening into Room B, just big enough to put one's
hand through. Its use is unknown. There were two oval niches in the
40 CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
lower wall: one was just north of the doorway; height 17 cm., width 16
cm., depth 13 cm. Another was in the wall opposite the doorway; height
25 cm., width 24 cm., depth 30 cm.
Floor: Adobe plastered on bedrock; surface color gray; under color pink.
Pits: Two. One pit was an oval bin with undercut walls; diameters 30
and 22 cm., depth 23 cm.; located near the west wall opposite the door.
Another pit was west of the door; diameters 14 and 13 cm., depth 18 cm.
Firepit: None.
Ceiling of room composed of natural cave roof; height near door 1.75
meters; height at south wall 1.13 meters.
Phase: Transitional Reserve-Tularosa.
General Comments: Used probably as a dwelling room. Trash was not
extensive. It may have been one of the earlier rooms in the Pueblo, al-
though there is probably very little time difference between the earlier
and later rooms — 15 to 25 years, perhaps.
Rooin B
(Figure 16)
Shape: Rectangular.
Walls: Same as Room A. Dimensions: height 1.0 to 1.75 meters; thick-
ness 20 to 25 cm.
Doorways: Two. One in east wall; height 132 cm.; width 75 cm.; sill 43
cm. above floor; jambs of pine pole (one to each side) about 12 cm. in
diameter; sill and lintel of stone well covered with adobe. The other, in
west wall, leading into Room C (see Room C for description). No
T-doorway.
Ventilator Openings and Niches: Vent openings just south of door in east
wall, the top on a level with the lintel; height 25 cm.; width 15 to 19 cm.
An oval niche in the northwest corner, just above the floor; diameters 40
to 60 cm.; depth 35 cm.
Floor: Same as Room A.
Pits: Six; diameters from 22 to 86 cm.; depths 16 to 86 cm. All were
floored over with sticks and adobe. The central one was lined with mat-
ting, and contained corn cobs and a worked stick (paho?).
Firepit: A shallow depression, with slab flooring, next to center of north
wall. Margins of pit indefinite; ashes spread over floor of room.
Ceiling: Cave roof; height from 1.0 to 1.75 meters.
Fig. 16.
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Doorway from Room E to Room B, Hinkle Park ClifT-Dwelling. Meter
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Phase: Transitional Reserve-Tularosa.
General Comments: Probably a dwelling room. The east wall abuts at the
north end on the south wall of Room A and at the south end on the north
wall of Room D. No bonding at all. Probably a nuclear room.
Room C
Shape: Elongated teat of cow.
Walls: All of bedrock, except south half of east wall. Masonry, therein,
like that of Room A; height 70 cm.; thickness 30 cm.
Doorway: One, in east wall; height 75 cm.; width 60 cm.; height of
sill above floor 25 cm. Sill and lintel of bedrock.
Niches: Three, all oval-shaped. One in north wall: diameter 15 cm.,
depth 30 cm. Two in south wall: diameters 20 and 50 cm.; heights 15
and 40 cm.; depths 15 and 35 cm.
Floor: Bedrock, unplastered.
Pit: One, undercut walls; top diameter 12 cm.; depth 30 cm. Covered
with twigs and mud.
Firepit: None.
Ceiling: Cave roof, 80 cm. above floor.
Phase: Transitional Reserve-Tularosa.
General Comments: Used probably as a granary (some corn, nuts, vege-
table materials recovered, and ceiling low).
Room D
(Figure 17)
Shape: Rectangular.
Walls: Same as Room A, plus the following notations: the west wall is
the rear wall of the cave and has no masonry in it. Thickness 20 to 25
cm.; greatest height 2 meters.
Doorway: One (rectangular) in east wall; height 72 cm.; width 50 cm.;
height of sill above floor 31 cm. Lintel of wooden rods, each 4 to 5 cm. in
diameter. Sill and jambs of plaster-covered stone. The lower portion is
closed with a plug of masonry. Just below the sill is a grooved slab to sup-
port a vertical door slab.
Niches: Three, in south wall; lengths 20, 30, and 35 cm.; heights 15, 25,
and 30 cm.; depths 30 and 40 cm.
Floor: Adobe plastered on bedrock; gray on surface; pink beneath.
ARCHITECTURAL DETAILS
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Pits: Two; greatest diameters 32 and 35 cm.; depths 40 and 55 cm. The
pit in the north half of the room had been floored over.
Firepit: Rectangular, with slab sides and bedrock bottom; length 35
cm., width 30 cm., and depth 50 cm.
Slot: Use unknown; may have been a receptacle for a deflector(?);
length 59 cm., depth 5 cm.
Postholes: Eight holes stretching part way diagonally across room, more
or less in line; diameters and depths 10 cm. Also in floor were several
Fig. 17. Room D, Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling; slab-sided firepit, left center;
postholes and storage pits in floor. White line on wall indicates original depth of
fill; meter stick in background; arrow (50 cm. long) points north.
other such holes of approximately the same size, all filled and sealed with
adobe plaster. The purpose is unknown; they may represent an earlier
partition in the room.
Ceiling: Cave roof; 2 meters high.
Phase: Transitional Reserve-Tularosa.
General Comments: Firepit may indicate that room was used as living
quarters. May have been one of the "nuclear rooms." Two "floors" were
present, separated by refuse.
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In its present state, this room served mainly as a passageway to Rooms
A, B, and D.
Room F
(Figures 18, 19)
Shape: Rectangular; the lower story of a two-story section.
Walls: Similar to those of Room A, except that the front wall is com-
posed of large stones in fairly even courses, whereas the other three walls
are built of smaller slabs. Thickness 20-30 cm.; greatest height 1.94
meters.
Doorways: Two, both rectangular. Dimensions of east doorway: height
73 cm.; width 37 cm.; height of sill above floor 35 cm. Dimensions of south
doorway (to I): height 55 cm.; width 35 cm.; height of sill above floor 43
Fig. 19. Ceiling of Room F, Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling.
46 CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
cm. Both doorways were provided with stone and wooden lintels, the
latter composed of three poles in each doorway, each pole about 6 cm. in
diameter.
Ventilator Opening: In the north wall was a sealed doorway, with a rec-
tangular opening in the upper part; dimensions 12 by 18 cm.
Floor: Adobe plastered on bedrock.
Pits: Two. One near east door; undercut walls; diameter 55 cm.; depth
65 cm. The second under north wall (extending into Trash Area) ; diame-
ter 30 cm.; depth 30 cm.
Firepit: None.
Ceiling: One of the best preserved and documented in the Mogollon
area; the first one found in Pine Lawn area. Four main beams (pinyon),
diameter of each about 10 cm., lengths 2 meters; laid north to south; ends
rounded to pointed, but showing ax marks. (One beam now missing.) All
were in excellent condition. On top of these main beams were splints, the
widths of which were 5 to 8 cm.; laid close together, one butted against
the next. On top of splints, gray adobe 10 cm. thick, forming the floor of
the room above (G).
Phase: Transitional Reserve-Tularosa.
General Comments: The only two-story room known in Pine Lawn Valley.
Probably added after the rear rooms were built. Purpose unknown, but
may have been dwelling room. In last days of pueblo was used for refuse.
Room G
(Figure 20)
Shape: The same as Room F and is the upper story over F. The east wall
is missing (destroyed by pot-hunters or by rock fall).
Walls: For the most part the same as those of Room A. Exception: few
through stones, but many large slabs set in adobe cushion. Dimensions:
thickness 24 to 32 cm.; height 1.5 meters (running up to cave roof).
Doorways: None.
Ventilator Opening: In rear wall, 12 by 15 cm.
Floor: Adobe (10 cm. thick) plastered on ceiling splints of Room F (see
description of ceiling, Room F),
Pits: None.
Firepit: None,
Ceiling: Roof of cave, 1.5 meters above floor.
Phase: Transitional Reserve-Tularosa.
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Fig. 20. Room G, Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling, before excavation.
General Comments: Purpose unknown; possibly used as granary. Built at
the same time as the lower story (Room F).
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Shape: Rectangular.
Walls: Similar to those of Room A. Thickness 20-30 cm.; height 1
meter.
Doorway: In west wall; rectangular; height 57 cm.; width 40 cm. Lintel
a stone slab; sill and jamb of stone and adobe. The lower portion of the
doorway is plugged (25 cm. up from floor); possibly it was a recess or a
support for a slab door.
Ventilator Opening: None.
Floor: Presently composed of large slabs, probably from roof-fall.
Ceiling: Missing.
Phase: Transitional Reserve-Tularosa.
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Room I
Shape: Wedge-shaped. The room looks like an afterthought or a make-
shift attempt to utilize left-over space.
Walls: Same as Room A. Thickness 20-25 cm.; present height 155 cm.
Doorway: Described as south doorway under Room F.
Beam Socket(?): In south wall; 90 cm. above floor; length 14 cm.; height
13 cm.; depth 10 cm. Semicircular in shape.
Wall Plate(?): The pole on top of the northwest wall may be a ceiling
splint or a wall plate.
Floor: Orange and gray adobe on bedrock.
Ceiling: Made up in part of small poles 5 cm. in diameter, laid in north-
south direction.
Phase: Transitional Reserve-Tularosa.
General Comments: The room was probably used as a granary (much
corn found therein). A second story may have existed and may have been
demolished by falling rock.
Room J
Shape: Not determined, since the room was not completely excavated
due to fall of large rocks.
Walls: Same as Room A. Thickness 20-25 cm.; present height 1 meter.
Doorway: A sealed doorway in the west wall may have existed, but be-
cause of the rock fall this cannot be determined.
Floor: Smoothed, adobe floor, 40 cm. above bedrock.
Pit: Near west wall; vertical walls, flat bottom; diameter 65 cm., depth
30 cm.
Ceiling: Impossible to determine the type.
Phase: Transitional Reserve-Tularosa.
General Comments: No ventilator openings and no firepit. The use of the
room is unknown. Possibly it was reoccupied, as the pit was sealed by a
floor.
Room K
(Figure 21)
Shape: Roughly pyramidal.
Walls: East and north walls were built on bedrock. Through stones are
rare; north, south, and east walls are made of large slabs, west wall of
Fig. 21. Room K, Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling; slab-sided firepit in foreground;
doorway to Room F in background. Meter stick in background; arrow (50 cm. long)
points north.
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small to medium slabs. All are set in thick adobe cushions. Both igneous
and sandstone slabs were used. Thickness 25-30 cm.; maximum present
height 1.70 meters.
Doorway: See under Room F, south doorway.
Floor: Adobe on bedrock.
Pits: Three. Two, adjoining, on southwest wall; diameters 60 and 80
cm.; depths 45 and 40 cm. One near northeast wall, irregular in shape;
greatest width 85 cm.; depth 45 cm. The pits are both undercut and par-
tially floored over with sticks and adobe.
Firepit: Rectangular, slab-lined; in the center of the room; length 45
cm.; width 34 cm.; depth 27 cm.
Postholes: Three(?); on the edge of the northeast pit; diameters range
from 10 to 20 cm.; depths from 10 to 15 cm.
Ceiling: Type undetermined.
Phase: Transitional Reserve-Tularosa.
General Comments: Probably Room K was a dwelling room, perhaps only
one story high.
Trash Area
(Figures 22, 23)
The northeastern end of the cave, designated as the Trash Area, com-
prises about one-half of the total cave area. One or more rooms may have
occupied part or all of this area. The stub end of a wall may be noted
projecting eastward from Room A toward the north wall of Room H, and
at the northeast end of this area another stub of a wall was found. Other
cross walls probably existed, but of these few or no traces were discovered.
It seems improbable that this large area was entirely used for storage or
trash, since good living quarters could have been established therein and
trash could have been dumped outside the cave.
Our excavations showed, however, that in the last days or years of
occupation this undivided area was used for trash, since it was piled therein
about 1 meter deep. Under the trash we found many storage pits (about
26) of varying sizes and depths. Many of these pits were sealed or "roofed"
with poles and adobe or with circular stone lids. The diameters of these
pits ranged from 22 to 60 cm., and the depths from 12 to 60 cm.; most of
them were undercut. In these as well as in the uncovered pits were found
manos, fragments of worked slabs, cigarette butts, basketry, hammer-
stones, arrow-shaft smoothers, pottery, three-quarter grooved axes, orna-
ments, matting, corn cobs, squash rinds, and other foods.
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Fig. 23. Trash Area, Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling; detail of storage pit with bit
of masonry at right. Arrow (50 cm. long) in foreground.
Apparently, then, before the area was used for general trash this space
had been largely given over to storage of foods, tools, paraphernalia and
the like, and also had been used for cooking and preparation of foods (one
or two pits contained ashes), for sleeping quarters(?) and for ceremonial
purposes (?). In the walls of the cave in this area were scooped out cubby-
holes that had been mudded over.
IIL Pottery
By Paul S. Martin
Four caves were excavated in the season of 1952: Y Canyon Cave,
Cosper Cliff-Dwelling, Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling, and O Block Cave.
Houses with masonry walls ("cliff-houses") were found only in Cosper
and Hinkle Park caves.
The methods of excavation of the caves and the classification and sta-
tistical analysis of the pottery were the same as those we formerly used
(Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, pp. 51-56).
Sherd counts for each cave (Tables 1-4) and a bar-type graph (fig. 24)
showing the percentages for several squares and levels of O Block Cave
accompany this chapter. Another bar graph shows the frequencies of pot-
tery types and seriation for Hinkle Park and Cosper Cliff-Dwellings and
three open sites (fig. 25).
The total number of sherds from Y Canyon Cave was 262; from Hinkle
Park Cliff-Dwelling, 5,389; from Cosper Cliff-Dwelling, 291; and from
O Block Cave, 982.
POTTERY TYPES BY PHASE i
Tularosa Phase
A. Painted Wares. 1, Tularosa Black-on-White (fig. 26); 2, St. Johns
Polychrome (fig. 27); 3, Pinedale Black-on-Red (fig. 27); 4, Tularosa
White-on-Red (figs. 27,/, 40).
B. Textured Wares (fig. 28, f, h, i-k). 1, Plain Corrugated; 2, Three
Circle Neck Corrugated; 3, Mimbres Corrugated; 4, Incised Corrugated;
5, Plain Corrugated with smudged interior; 6, Reserve Indented Cor-
rugated; 7, Plain and Indented Corrugated; 8, Tularosa Patterned-
Plain-and- Indented Corrugated; 9, Tularosa Fillet Rim; 10, MacDonald
Corrugated.
Also found among the textured wares for this period are many varieties
of the types named above; for example, we found some Red Indented
1 A list of all pottery types and references to their descriptions is given on
pages 72-73.
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Corrugated, Red Indented Corrugated with smudged interior, Indented
Corrugated with smudged interior, Indented Corrugated with red interior,
and Indented Corrugated with polished red, slipped interior. We think
that these are merely variations of the main type, Reserve Indented Cor-
rugated. In the table showing sherd counts by site, however, we have
listed them without particular type name (e.g., Red Indented Corrugated
or Indented Corrugated with smudged interior) so that if they are ever
raised to the status of another type, these counts can be used in future
studies.
We were reluctant to give names to these apparent varieties for several
reasons, the chief ones being that we had only a handful of representative
sherds and no whole pieces; that new types should be created only after
discussion with other pottery experts; and that there are now probably too
many pottery "types." Some day, Southwesterners may be able, in con-
ference, to merge many of the hundreds of types — the bane of students
and others.
C. Plain Wares. 1, Alma Plain; 2, San Francisco Red (including one or
two variations); 3, Reserve Smudged.
D. Trade Wares. 1, Mimbres Classic Black-on- White (fig. 30); 2,
Tusayan Polychrome; 3, Wingate Black-on-Red.
Reserve Phase
A. Painted Wares. 1, Reserve Black-on-White (fig. 26); 2, Smudged
Decorated (fig. 29).
B. Textured Wares. 1, Plain Corrugated; 2, Incised Corrugated; 3,
Mimbres Corrugated; 4, Mimbres Neck Corrugated; 5, Tularosa Pat-
terned-Plain-and-Indented Corrugated; 6, Plain and Indented Corrugat-
ed; 7, Punched Corrugated; 8, Reserve Indented Corrugated; 9, San
Francisco Red with punched and smoothed corrugated exteriors; 10,
Tularosa Fillet Rim; and 11, Reserve Fillet Rim. Smudged variants of
most of these types were also found and are listed in the table of sherd
counts.
C. Plain Wares. 1, Alma Plain; 2, San Francisco Red; 3, Reserve
Smudged.
D. Trade Wares. 1, Cerros Red-on- White; 2, Gray ware, corrugated
neck, tooled; 3, Linden Corrugated; 4, Mimbres Bold Face Black-on-
White (fig. 30); 5, Puerco Black-on-White; 6, Red Mesa Black-on-White;
7, Wingate Black-on-Red.
Remarks: During the Reserve Phase, the Indians made chiefly tex-
tured pottery and experimented with various methods of tooling their
Fig. 26. Row on right, Reserve Black-on-White; remainder, Tularosa Black-
on-White.
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Fig. 27. Wingate Black-on-Red, a, c, g, h, m, n, o; St. Johns Polychrome, b;
Pinedale Black-on-Red with sub-glaze, d, e; Tularosa White-on-Red, /; Tusayan Poly-
chrome, i; Encinas Red-on-White(?),7; San Francisco Red Punched, k; Cerros Red-
on-White, /.
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Fig. 28. Punched Corrugated, a-c; Gray ware, corrugated neck, tooled, d; Alma
Neck Banded, e; Plain and Indented Corrugated, /; Alma Plain with appliqued nodes,
g; Plain Corrugated, h, k; Mimbres Indented Corrugated, i; MacDonald Indented
Corrugated (?), J.
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Fig. 29. Smudged Decorated potsherds.
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Fig. 30. Upper right corner, Puerco Black-on-White; remainder, Mimbres
Black-on-White.
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Fig. 31. Alma Plain variant with fugitive red interior,
level 2, O Block Cave. Height, 7.2 cm.; diameter, 30.7 cm.
Bowl from Square A-2,
Fig. 32. Miniature jars from Trash Area G, Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling.
Diameter of jar on right, 6.7 cm.
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POTTERY 63
culinary wares. It reminds one of a similar period among the Anasazi
during Pueblo II and early Pueblo III periods.
Three Circle Phase
A. Painted Wares. 1, Three Circle Red-on-White; 2, Mimbres Bold
Face Black-on- White.
Fig. 33. Incised Corrugated jar from Room A, pit, Cosper Cliff-Dwelling.
Height, 12.5 cm.; diameter, 12.5 cm.
B. Textured Wares. 1, Alma Incised; 2, Alma Punched; 3, Three Circle
Neck Corrugated.
C. Plain Wares. 1, Alma Plain; 2, San Francisco Red; 3, Reserve
Smudged.
D. Trade Wares. Kiatuthlanna Black-on-White.
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CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
Fig. 34. Indented Corrugated Smudged Interior bowl from Room A, floor,
Cosper Cliff-Dwelling. Height, 10.5 cm.; diameter, 18.5 cm.
Pine Lawn Phase
Painted and textured wares do not occur in this phase.
The pottery types present are: 1, Alma Plain; 2, Alma Rough; and 3,
San Francisco Red, Saliz Variety.
MENDED, RESTORED AND WHOLE POTS
1. Brown-ware bowl with fugitive red interior; probably a variant of
Alma Plain (fig. 31). From O Block Cave; Reserve Phase; cat. no. 262764.
2. Three miniature pots; two "Alma Plain" and one neck-corrugated
(fig. 32). From Trash Area, Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling; Transitional Re-
serve-Tularosa phases; cat. nos. 262662 (smallest), 262724 (neck-corru-
gated), and 262741.
3. Incised Corrugated jar (fig. 33). From Cosper Cliff"-D welling;
Tularosa Phase; cat. no. 262610.
4. Bowl with Reserve Indented Corrugated exterior, smudged interior
(fig. 34). From floor of Room A, Cosper CliflT-Dwelling; Tularosa Phase;
cat. no. 262629.
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65
5. Plain and Indented Corrugated jar (fig. 35). From floor of Room J,
Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling; Transitional Reserve-Tularosa phases; cat.
no. 262801.
6. Reserve Smudged bowl (fig. 36). From Trash Area, Hinkle Park
CIiff"-Dwelling; Transitional Reserve-Tularosa phases; cat. no. 262810.
7. Three Circle Neck Corrugated jar (fig. 37). O Block Canyon; Three
Circle Phase; cat. no. 263263.
8. Tularosa Indented Corrugated jar (neck missing) (fig. 38). From pit
in floor of Room A, Cosper Cliff"-Dwelling; Tularosa Phase; cat. no
262609.
9. Tularosa Fillet Rim bowl (fig. 39). From O Block Cave; Tularosa
Phase; cat. no. 262735.
10. Tularosa White-on-Red bowl (fig. 40). From floor of Room A,
Cosper Cliff"-Dwelling; Tularosa Phase; cat. no. 262648.
Fig. 35. Plain and Indented Corrugated jar from Room J, level 4, Hinkle Park
Cliff-Dwelling. Height, 21.1 cm.; diameter, 25.3 cm.
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CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
TRENDS IN CERAMIC POPULARITY
Cosper and Hinkle Park ClifF-Dwellings
The rooms and trash areas in Cosper and Hinkle Park caves were
excavated in levels. After the sherds from these levels had been washed,
classified, tabulated, and counted, we calculated the percentages of each
pottery type. We then plotted these percentages on standard graph paper
Fig. 36. Reserve Smudged bowl from Trash Area F, levels 3-5, Hinkle Park
Cliff-Dwelling. Height, 10.0 cm.; diameter, 17.5 cm.
and studied the results. We were unable to detect any trends or statistically
significant changes in time between any of the levels in the rooms and
trash areas or between rooms. We concluded, then, on the basis of this and
other facts that Cosper and Hinkle Park caves had been occupied (not
contemporaneously) for a short span of time, perhaps 15 to 40 years. This
is a fortunate circumstance, since such sites (of a single, short occupation)
greatly simplify some of our problems, notably those of general architec-
tural analysis, of dating, and of reconstruction of the daily life, cere-
monies, and social organization of the Indians who once lived there.
POTTERY
67
Therefore, since Cosper and Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwellings apparently
represent one short occupation (although not simultaneous occupation), we
totaled all the sherds of each type, irrespective of find spots, and calculat-
ed the percentages of each type. These percentages for each pottery type
for each cave were drawn on bar graphs. The bar graphs were then
ranked and placed in the seriation of previously excavated sites — Three
Pines Pueblo, Wet Leggett Pueblo, and South Leggett Pueblo.
Fig. 37. Three Circle Neck Corrugated jar from Square A-3, level 2, O Block
Cave. Height, 18 cm.; diameter, 20 cm.
We assume for a number of reasons (Martin, Rinaldo, Antevs, 1949, pp.
190-198; Martin and Rinaldo, 1950a, pp. 370-374, 1950b, pp. 530-532;
Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, pp. 53-56) that the position of each
site in the series represents probably the correct relative chronological
order. Thus, in the graph shown in figure 25, Three Pines Pueblo, Jacal,
is the earliest site and Cosper ClifF-Dwelling the latest.
68 CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
If this relative chronology is correct we can then note that:
1. Alma Plain, San Francisco Red, Reserve Smudged, Plain Corru-
gated, Three Circle Neck Corrugated, and Reserve Black-on-White are
declining in popularity.
2. Plain and Indented Corrugated, Tularosa Fillet Rim, and Tularosa
Black-on-White and other late types are increasing in popularity.
Fig. 38. Tularosa Indented Corrugated jar from Room A, pit, Cosper Cliff-
Dwelling. Height, 20.0 cm.; diameter, 25.0 cm.
3. Plain wares as a whole are less popular, while painted or elaborately
textured pottery is to continue in popularity.
O Block Cave
Since there was no building or rooms in this cave, we dug it by squares
and levels as in Tularosa Cave (Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, pp.
40-42). There were no natural levels of refuse; we therefore stripped the
Fig. 39. Tularosa Fillet Rim pottery bowl from Square C-2, levels 1 and 2,
O Block Cave. Diameter, 37.8 cm.; height, 13.4 cm.
Fig. 40. Tularosa White-on-Red bowl from Room A, Cosper Gliff-Dwelling.
Height, 13.3 cm.; diameter, 24.1 cm.
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70 CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
refuse in squares (2 meters square) and in levels (20 cm. thick). Alto-
gether, four trenches (A-D) and 69 levels were dug in this manner. Most
squares yielded three pottery-bearing levels but some yielded five. In a
few places, there were six levels below the pottery-bearing strata.
After the sherds had been classified we calculated the percentages of
each type for each square and level and then plotted these percentages by
squares on a wedge-bar graph. The percentages for three typical squares
are presented in a graph (fig. 24), in which the percentages for the lowest
levels are placed at the bottom and those for the highest levels at the top.
From a scrutiny of this graph we can see that: (1) the frequency of Alma
Plain decreases from the lowest levels to the higher ones; (2) the propor-
tion of Reserve Smudged and Plain Corrugated increases from bottom
to top.
The general trends as shown in this graph corroborate what we have
found in Tularosa Cave and in open sites, although the number of sherds
from any one square is too small to be significant.
We assigned phases as follows (fig. 41):
Square A-1: level 1, Reserve; level 2, Three Circle; level 3, Pine Lawn;
levels 4, 5, 6, Pre-Pottery,
Square B-2: levels 1, 2, Reserve; level 3, Three Circle; level 4, Pine
Lawn; levels 5, 6, Pre-Pottery.
Square C-1 : level 1, Reserve; level 2, Three Circle; levels 3 and 4, Pine
Lawn; levels 5, 6, 7, 8, Pre-Pottery.
Y Canyon Cave
This cave likewise contained no architectural features, and, since natural
levels were completely absent, the refuse was stripped by squares (2 meters
square) and in levels (20 cm. thick). Altogether, six squares and thirteen
levels were thus excavated and sherds were found at all levels. The refuse
was thin, the deepest portion being only 60 cm. thick, and it had been
much disturbed and jumbled.
After the sherds had been tabulated and percentages calculated and
plotted, we found that there was such intermixture that we could not make
any deductions from our data. We therefore wrote off the excavations
more or less as a loss and assigned the materials from that cave to a
chronological category that we termed "Pine Lawn through Reserve."
A few sherds of Apache pottery were found on the surface of this cave.
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KEY
TULAROSA PHASE
RESERVE PHASE -
— PRE- POTTERY PHASE I
— THREE CIRCLE THROUGH TULAROSA— 1
THREE CIRCLE PHASE— PINE LAWN THROUGH RESERVE
PINE LAWN PHASE PINE LAWN THROUGH THREE CIRCLE-
Fig. 41. Schematic diagram of stratigraphy in O Block Cave.
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72 CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
SUMMARY
The sequences and trends in popularity of the pottery types found in the
four caves corroborated exactly that which we had found in previous sea-
sons. No new types were discovered.
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF POTTERY TYPES
AND REFERENCES TO THEIR DESCRIPTIONS
Alma Incised (Haury, 1936b, p. 40).
Alma Neck Banded (Haury, 1936b, p. 35).
Alma Plain (Haury, 1936b, p. 32; Martin and Rinaldo, 1947, pp. 362-368).
Alma Punched (Haury, 1936b, p. 39).
Alma Rough (Martin and Rinaldo, 1940, pp. 78-80, and 1947, pp. 362-368; Martin,
1943, p. 238).
Alma Scored (Haury, 1936b, p. 38; Martin and Rinaldo, 1950a, p. 359).
Apache (Douglas, 1935, pp. 78-79).
Black pottery, indented decoration, scalloped rim (Apache).
Cerros Red-on-White (Sayles, 1945, pp. 42-43).
Gray ware, corrugated neck, tooled (unnamed and undescribed type).
Incised Corrugated (Martin and Rinaldo, 1950a, pp. 359-360, and 1950b, pp. 501,
529).
Incised Corrugated, Smudged Interior (13 sherds); a variety of Incised Corrugated?
Indented Corrugated, polished red interior, slipped; variety of Reserve Indented Cor-
rugated?
Indented Corrugated, Red Interior; variety of Reserve Indented Corrugated?
Indented Corrugated, Smudged Interior; variety of Reserve Indented Corrugated?
Indeterminate Black-on-Red.
Indeterminate Black-on-White, no design showing, white.
Indeterminate Polychrome.
Kiatuthlanna Black-on-White (Roberts, 1931, pp. 130-149; Gladwin, 1945, pp. 41-42).
Linden Corrugated (Colton and Hargrave, 1937, p. 60).
MacDonald Corrugated (Colton and Hargrave, 1937, pp. 61-62; Martin and Willis,
1940, pi. 111).
Mimbres Bold Face Black-on-White (Cosgrove, 1932, p. 76).
Mimbres Classic Black-on-White (Cosgrove, 1932, pp. 72-75).
Mimbres Indented Corrugated (polish over coils) (Cosgrove, 1932, pi. 92).
Pinedale Black-on-Red with sub-glaze (may be Springerville Polychrome) (Haury and
Hargrave, 1931; Martin and Willis, 1940, pis. 103-104).
Plain Corrugated (lacks polish) (Martin and Rinaldo, 1950b, pp. 500, 528; Martin,
Rinaldo, and others, 1952, p. 64).
Plain Corrugated, Smudged Interior; variety of Plain Corrugated?
Plain and Indented Corrugated (Martin and Rinaldo, 1950b, pp. 526-530).
Plain and Indented Corrugated, Smudged Interior; variety of Plain and Indented Cor-
rugated?
Plain, unpolished red, red interior; variety of Alma Plain (19 sherds) (letter from Haury,
1953).
Polished brown rim, tooled (1 sherd); a variety of Alma Plain?
Puerco Black-on-White (Gladwin, 1931, pp. 24-26; Martin and Willis, 1940, pis.
70-73).
Punched Corrugated; and Punched Corrugated, Smudged Interior (15 sherds; unde-
scribed type).
Red Indented Corrugated; variety of Reserve Indented Corrugated?
POTTERY 73
Red Indented Corrugated, Smudged Interior; variety of Reserve Indented Corru-
gated?
Red Mesa Black-on-White (Gladwin, 1945, pp. 56-57; Martin and Willis, 1940, pis.
66-67).
Reserve Black-on-White (Nesbitt, 1938, p. 138; Martin and Rinaldo, 1950b, pp.
502-519).
Reserve Indented Corrugated (Gladwin, 1934, p. 18; Martin and Rinaldo, 1950b,
pp. 501, 530).
Reserve Smudged (Martin, Rinaldo, and Antevs, 1949, pp. 187-188; Martin and
Rinaldo, 1950a, pp. 359-360, and 1950b, pp. 500, 534; Nesbitt, 1938, p. 139
[under Reserve Plain ware]).
Reserve Smudged, dimpled exterior (1 sherd); variety of Reserve Smudged?
St. Johns Polychrome (Gladwin, 1931, pp. 36-40; Martin and Willis, 1940, pis.
97-101).
St. Johns Polychrome, sub-glaze; probably a variant of St. Johns Polychrome (Martin
and Willis, 1940, pi. 100).
San Francisco Red, Coiled Exterior (32 sherds); variety of San Francisco Red? (cf.
Cloverdale Corrugated, Kidder and Cosgrove, 1949, fig. 12, and Reserve Red-
ware, Nesbitt, 1938, pi. 38).
San Francisco Red, Punched (1 sherd); variety of San Francisco Red^
San Francisco Red, Saliz Variety (Haury, 1936b, pp. 28-31; Martin and Rinaldo,
1940, pp. 80-81, and 1947, pp. 364-368; Martin, 1943, p. 240).
San Francisco Red, Smudged Interior (4 sherds); variety of San Francisco Red?
Smudged Decorated (Martin, Rinaldo, and Antevs, 1949, p. 188; Martin and Rinaldo,
1950b, pp. 507, 524; Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, p. 62).
Three Circle Neck Corrugated (Haury, 1936b, p. 36; Martin, Rinaldo, and others,
1952, pp. 60, 80).
Three Circle Red-on-White (Haury, 1936b, pp. 18-21; Martin and Rinaldo, 1950a,
pp. 362-369; Nesbitt, 1938, p. 137).
Tularosa Black-on-White (never completely described) (Gladwin, 1931, pp. 32-35;
Hawley, 1936, pp. 46-47; Kidder, 1924, p. 98; Nesbitt, 1938, p. 139).
Tularosa Fillet Rim (Gladwin, 1934, p. 18; Kidder, 1924, p. 98; Martin, Rinaldo, and
others, 1952, p. 65).
Tularosa Fillet Rim, San Francisco Red Interior (slipped?) (2 sherds); variety of
Tularosa Fillet Rim?
Tularosa Patterned-Plain-and-Indented Corrugated (Kidder, 1924, p. 98; Wendorf,
1950, p. 38 ["patterned corrugated"]).
Tularosa Patterned-Plain-and-Indented Corrugated, Smudged Interior; variety of
Tularosa Patterned-Plain-and-Indented Corrugated.
Tularosa White-on-Red (formerly Reserve Polychrome) (Nesbitt, 1938, p. 139;
Wendorf, 1950, p. 122).
Tusayan Polychrome (Hargrave, 1932).
Wingate Black-on-Red (Gladwin, 1931, pp. 29-31; Martin and Willis, 1940, pis.
89-96; Gladwin, 1945, pp. 71-73).
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(Figures 46-49)
Single Grinding Surfaces
TYPE A
Description: Oval in outline, one with surfaces parallel, the other wedge-
shaped in cross section, grinding surfaces convex (fig. 46, c). Total 2.
Materials: Fine-grained basalt.
Dimensions: Length, 21.7 cm., one fragment; width, 12.4, 9.6 cm.; thick-
ness, 4.6, 6.3 cm.
TYPE B
Description: Oval in outline, surfaces parallel, grinding surface slightly
convex (figs. 46, d, 48, a). Total 6.
Materials: Rhyolite, basalt.
Dimensions: Length, 11.4, 20.5, 15.8 cm., remainder fragments; width,
10.5, 14.9, 10.3, 9.8, 9.8, 9.5 cm.; thickness, 4.5, 4.3, 5.2, 1.7, 3.4, 5.4 cm.
TYPE C
Description: Oval in outline, surfaces parallel, grinding surface flat (fig.
46, a). Total 5.
Materials: Basalt.
Dimensions: Length, 15.3 cm., remainder fragments; width, 8.5, 9.0, 5.2,
10.4, 11.7 cm.; thickness, 5.5, 3.9, 2.4, 6.3, 2.3 cm.
TYPE D
Description: Rectangular in outline, surfaces parallel, grinding surface
convex (fig. 46, b). Total 3.
Materials: Rhyolite, biotite.
Dimensions: Length, 22.4, 26.0 cm., one fragment; width, 12.4, 11.7, 9.0
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Fig. 46. Oval and rectangular two hand manos. Length of d, 20.5 cm.
TYPE E
Description: Rectangular in outline, surfaces parallel, grinding surface
slightly convex (figs. 47, a, 48, c). Total 10.
Materials: Rhyolite, scoria.
Dimensions: Length, 9.7-21.5 cm., average, 17.0 cm.; width, 7.5-11.8
cm., average, 10.1 cm.; thickness, 3.7-7.1 cm., average, 4.6 cm.
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Fig. 47. Rectangular two hand manos. Length of d, 17.6 cm.
TYPE F
Description: Rectangular in outline, surfaces parallel, grinding surface
flat (fig. 47, b). Total 9.
Materials: Rhyolite.
Dimensions: Length, 13.1-20.0 cm., average, 15.0 cm.; width, 6.0-12.1
cm., average, 10.2 cm.; thickness, 2.6-7.1 cm., average, 4.8 cm.
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Fig. 48. Oval and rectangular one hand manos. Length of h, 1.30 cm.
Two Grinding Surfaces
TYPE A
Description: Oval in outline, surfaces parallel, convex (fig. 48, e, /).
Total 2.
Materials: Basalt, quartz cobble.
Dimensions: Length, 11.0, 12.1 cm.; width, 10.5, 8.6 cm.; thickness,
4.7, 4.7 cm.
SPECIMENS OF STONE, BONE, AND CLAY 95
TYPE B
Description: Oval in outline, surfaces parallel, slightly convex (fig. 48, g).
Total 4.
Materials: Basalt.
Dimensions: Length, one fragment, 12.6, 15.6, 11.9 cm.; width, 4.6, 8.0,
12.0, 8.5 cm.; thickness, 2.9, 5.7, 5.3, 4.7 cm.
TYPE C
Description: Oval in outline, surfaces parallel, flat. Total 4.
Materials: Scoria.
Dimensions: Length, 14.5 cm., remainder fragments; width, 5.4, 9.5,
8.1, 5.8 cm.; thickness, 3.9, 5.1, 3.6, 5.4 cm.
TYPE D
Description: Rectangular in outline, one wedge-shaped in cross section,
the others with surfaces parallel, one flat, one convex (fig. 47, c). Total 5.
Materials: Sandstone.
Dimensions: Length, 20.3, 20.7 cm., remainder fragments; width, 10.0,
9.8, 10.1, 10.6, 10.1 cm.; thickness, 2.7, 3.5, 3.6, 3.4, 3.2 cm.
TYPE E
Description: Rectangular in outline, one wedge-shaped in cross section,
the others with surfaces parallel, slightly convex. Total 1 1 .
Materials: Discarded in field.
Dimensions: Length, all fragments; width, 9.4-12.5 cm., average, 10.8
cm.; thickness, 2.5-5.6 cm., average, 4.9 cm.
TYPE F
Description: Square in outline, surfaces parallel, flat (fig. 48, b). Total 1.
Material: Sandstone.
Dimensions: Length, 9.6 cm.; width, 7.7 cm.; thickness, 1.7 cm.
TYPE G
Description: Rectangular with rounded corners in outline, one grinding
surface convex lengthwise, slightly convex crosswise, the other convex; one
specimen wedge-shaped in cross section, the other with surfaces parallel
(fig. 48, d). Total 2.
Materials: Basalt.
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Dimensions: Length, 20.0, 13.8 cm.; width, 10.2, 5.5 cm.; thickness, 2.9,
2.4 cm.
TYPE H
Description: Rectangular with rounded corners in outline, one grinding
surface convex lengthwise, slightly convex crosswise, the other slightly con-
vex; four specimens wedge-shaped in cross section, the others with surfaces
parallel (fig. 49, a, c, d). Total 9.
Materials: Rhyolite, scoria, sandstone.
Dimensions: Length, 15.4-21.2 cm., average, 17.5 cm.; width, 8.6-11.3
cm., average, 10.0 cm.; thickness, 3.1-6.6 cm., average, 4.3 cm.
TYPE I
Description: Rectangular in outline, surfaces parallel, convex lengthwise,
slightly convex crosswise (fig. 47, d). Total 2.
Materials: Sandstone, scoria.
Dimensions: Length, 17.6, 15.1 cm.; width, 10.9, 10.4 cm.; thickness, 3.5,
3.7 cm.
TYPE J
Description: Rectangular in outline, surfaces parallel, flat (fig. 49, b).
Total 4.
Materials: Sandstone.
Dimensions: Length, 18.7, 15.0, 26.8 cm., one fragment; width, 10.1,
10.3, 11.4, 6.8 cm.; thickness, 3.1, 2.8, 4.4, 5.7 cm.
TYPE K
Description: Oval in outline with one beveled grinding surface in a
double plane with a longitudinal ridge between, and one slightly convex
grinding surface (fig. 48, h). Total 6.
Materials: Basalt.
Dimensions: Length, all fragments; width, 9.0, 6.8, 9.3, 9.7, 7.8, 11.0;
thickness, 2.5, 2.8, 2.7, 2.8, 3.6, 2.8 cm.
RUBBING STONES
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TYPE A
Description: Smooth, roughly oval to rectangular pebbles with single
slightly convex rubbing surfaces (fig. 50, c). Total 5.
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Fig. 49. Rectangular two hand manos with two grinding surfaces. Length oid,
15.9 cm.
Materials: Rhyolite, limestone.
Dimensions: Length, 8.2, one fragment, 8.6, 8.2, 6.9 cm.; width, 4.3, 5.1,
7.2, 5.3, 6.4 cm.; thickness, 1.7, 3.5, 3.2, 3.7, 4.3 cm.
TYPE B
Description: Smooth, roughly oval pebbles with two flat rubbing surfaces
(fig. 50, a, b). Total 2.
Fig. 50. Rubbing stones. Length of c, 8.6 cm.
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Fig. 51. Polishing stones. Length of lower right specimen, 6.5 cm.
Materials: Basalt, sandstone.
Dimensions: Length, 9.8, 8.3 cm.; width, 6.9, 7.5 cm.; thickness, 2.5,
2.2 cm.
POLISHING STONES
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Description: Small pebbles, oval or circular in outline, with one or more
flat polishing surfaces. Total 4.
Materials: Limestone.
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Dimensions: Length, 4.5, 6.5, 4.4, 4.1 cm.; width, 3.5, 3.8, 2.2, 4.1 cm.;
thickness, 1.1, 2.5, 0.8, 2.5 cm.
DISCUSSION
The handstones (manos, rubbing stones, and polishing stones), as a
group, typically have one or more broad working surfaces worn by con-
siderable use. On the smaller handstones, such as polishing stones and
rubbing stones, these working surfaces have the nature of quite smooth
facets ranging in curvature from almost flat to convex. The analogous
grinding surfaces of the manos, especially the larger specimens, are more
frequently characterized by dimpling and minute crosswise scratches (fig.
47). These marks probably resulted from pecking with a hammerstone and
prolonged back and forth grinding on the metate.
The late rectangular manos were probably given additional shaping by
pecking and grinding. Not only are the grinding surfaces of these altered,
but the edges and ends show dimpling as well. Moreover, these manos are
far too symmetrical in outline to have been shaped so evenly by rubbing
against the metate walls alone. On the other hand, most of the manos have
ends that were rounded or squared off" to some extent by wear on the mar-
gins of the metate grinding surfaces. Those used so much as to be worn
wedge-shaped in cross section frequently are the most regularly rounded;
and the short one hand manos, which were more common in the levels
where basin type metates were recovered, are more frequently oval. Fur-
thermore, the rectangular manos with grinding surfaces that are more
convex lengthwise than crosswise were probably used on trough type
metates and were squared off by a linear back-and-forth motion in the
trough.
Several of the earlier one hand manos and a few of the late two hand
manos show no particular wear or shaping of the ends. This seems to indi-
cate that natural pebbles of handy size and convenient weight were se-
lected— that the raw material for the manos was not broken out of larger
rocks. The beveled mano (see p. 96) was probably formed by a unique type
of grinding (Kidder, 1932, p. 71). These manos generally show consider-
able wear. No whole specimens of this type were recovered during the 1952
season. One of the rectangular manos (cat. no. 262652) from the trash
area in Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling had dried juniper berry seeds and pulp
in the interstices of its porous grinding surface.
Six manos out of the thirty-odd brought back to the Museum have pits
or grooves in their edges for finger grips.
Distribution: The majority of the manos occurred in the later levels of the
caves and in the cliff-dwellings. Most of them are of the longer two hand
SPECIMENS OF STONE, BONE, AND CLAY 101
type. One hand manos (here defined as less than 15 cm. long) came from
both the lower (Pine Lawn and Pre- Pottery) levels and the cliff-dwellings;
but those from the cliff-dwellings appear to be exceptional specimens, such
as the one example that looks like a child's version of one of the later types.
Most of the manos are rounded-rectangular in outline. All the specimens
with grinding surfaces more convex lengthwise than crosswise are from the
cliff-dwellings, as are the beveled manos. This late distribution is in agree-
ment with the distribution of these types in Tularosa and Cordova caves
(Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, pp. 109-110) and in the Reserve
Phase sites in the Pine Lawn Valley (Martin and Rinaldo, 1950b, p. 451).
This also agrees with their distribution in other areas of the Southwest; for
example, beveled manos are reported only from Pueblo II-IV of the
Anasazi, or the coeval periods in the south (Kidder, 1932, p. 71; Bartlett,
1934, pp. 27-28; Sayles, 1945, pi. 31; Kidder and Cosgrove, 1949, p. 140).
All the rubbing stones collected came from the cliff-dwellings and the
later levels of the caves. Rubbing stones have been recovered from Anasazi
and Hohokam sites as well as Mogollon sites.
The few polishing stones that were recovered may be a concomitant
of the late occupation of the sites excavated. These implements were found
to decrease in frequency in inverse proportion to the increase in the quan-
tity of corrugated pottery (Martin, Rinaldo, and Antevs, 1949, p. 215;
Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, p. 110).
METATES
(Figures 52-55)
TYPE A
Description: Slab type, large slab, generally oblong in outline with flat or
slightly concave upper surface; bottom and sides of slab unworked; grind-
ing surface usually smooth, sometimes pecked. Total 10.
Dimensions: Length, 28.0-52.0 cm., average, 38.0 cm.; width, 22.0-47.0
cm., average, 33.0 cm.; thickness, 4.7-13.0 cm., average, 9.1 cm.
TYPE B
Description: Shallow basin type, unshaped slabs of stone, generally rec-
tangular to broadly triangular in outline, with shallow oval grinding sur-
face. Total 7.
Dimensions: Length, 31.0-40.0 cm., average, 35.5 cm.; width, 21.0-30.0
cm., average, 25.3 cm.; thickness, 6.0-11.0 cm., average, 8.6 cm.
Fig. 52. Upper specimen, small metate-like grinding stone; lower specimen,
slab type metate. Length of lower specimen, 35.0 cm.
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TYPE C
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Description: Deep basin type, unshaped blocks of stone, generally rec-
tangular or boat-shaped in outline with oval grinding surface, somewhat
basin-shaped. Total 7.
Fig. 53. Shallow basin type metate from O Block Cave. Length, 37.0 cm.
Dimensions: Length, 41.0-52.0 cm., average, 45.0 cm.; width, 21.0-42.0
cm., average, 36.0 cm.; thickness, 7.0-16.0 cm., average, 10.6 cm.
Basin Dimensions: Length, 14.0-29.0 cm., average, 20.6 cm.; width,
13.0-22.0 cm., average, 14.8 cm.; depth, 3.0-5.0 cm., average, 4.0 cm.
TYPE D
Description: Through trough type, generally oblong blocks of stone with
shallow trough-shaped grinding surface open at both ends. Total 8.
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Dimensions: Length, 26.0-47.0 cm., average, 35.6 cm.; width, 21.0-36.0
cm., average, 26.8 cm.; thickness, 3.0-10.0 cm., average, 7.7 cm.
TYPE E
Description: Generally oblong blocks of stone with trough-shaped grind-
ing surfaces open at one end only. Total 3.
Materials: Scoria.
Dimensions: Length, 34.0, one fragment, 33.0 cm.; width, 27.0, one frag-
ment, 24.0 cm.; thickness, 10.0, 7.0, 5.0 cm.
SMALL METATE-LIKE GRINDING STONES
(Figure 52, top)
Description: Thick slabs of stone, one rectangular, the other generally
triangular in outline, with smooth slightly depressed grinding surface; sides
and bottoms of slabs unworked, one wedge-shaped in cross section. Total 3.
Dimensions: Length, 20.0, 19.0, 20.0 cm.; width, 15.0, 16.0, 18.0 cm.;
thickness, 3.0, 6.0, 8.0 cm.
PAINT GRINDING STONES
(Figure 56)
TYPE A
Description: Large rough thick narrow blocks of stone, with trough-like
grinding surfaces showing traces of red paint. Total 2.
Dimensions: Length, 31.0, 41.0 cm.; width, 10.0, 17.0 cm.; thickness,
10.0, 10.0 cm.
TYPE B
Description: Irregular small slabs with traces of paint on one surface; one
specimen with paint in slight depression. Total 2.
Materials: Rhyolite with hematite on surface.
Dimensions: Length, 11.9, 13.4 cm.; width, 6.9, 10.4 cm.; thickness, 1.8,
5.1 cm.
DISCUSSION
The lower milling stones (metates, small metate-like grinding stones and
paint grinding stones) all have large broad grinding surfaces characterized
by some polish and a smaller amount of dimpling. In general, the grinding
surfaces of the lower milling stones tend to be smoother and more highly
polished than do the corresponding surfaces of the manos and other upper
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Fig. 56. Upper specimen, pit cover; lower specimens, paint grinding stones.
Length of lower right specimen, 11.9 cm.
milling stones, which are more often characterized by dimpling, which is
the result of pecking them with a hammerstone. Only one of the larger
trough type metates appears to have been intentionally shaped. The bot-
tom and sides of all the other metates were unworked. Consequently, the
slabs and blocks of stone that were selected for use as metates conform only
in a general way to geometric shapes such as "rectangular"; actually their
contours are somewhat irregular.
Although green pigment was found on some of the paint grinding stones
from Tularosa Cave, red (hematite) was the more common pigment there
(Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, p. 138) and was the only pigment to be
found on these stones from O Block Cave and Hinkle Park ClifF-Dwelling.
In turn, this corroborates the evidence from the open sites in the Pine
SPECIMENS OF STONE, BONE, AND CLAY 107
Lawn Valley, where a few of the paint grinding stones have hematite on
their surfaces. Hematite was also found on the grinding surfaces of three
early basin metates from O Block Cave and a late trough metate from
Gosper Cliff-Dwelling. This indicates, of course, a departure from the
putative normal use of metates for grinding corn and other food products.
Distribution: As may be seen from the listing of occurrences by sites and
phases (see fig. 42), basin metates had predominantly an early distribution,
in that most of them were recovered from the Pre-Pottery and Pine Lawn
Phase levels of O Block Cave, although a very few were recovered from
later levels of the same cave. Conversely, the trough metate had pre-
dominantly a late distribution in the caves and cliff-dwellings excavated.
The slab type metates, on the other hand, were almost equally di-
vided early and late. These, however, should be distinguished from the
slab metates normally found in mealing bins in the late Pueblo II and III
ruins of the Chaco and San Juan districts (Pepper, 1920, pp. 295-297;
Morris, 1919, pp. 29, 235). Both the northern and the southern slab
metates have plain surfaces; however, those from the Reserve area are
more irregular in outline, and with only one possible exception (Martin
and Rinaldo, 1950b, p. 440) were not placed in slab-sided mealing bins.
No mealing bins of this type were uncovered in the cliff-dwellings. Metates
and manos were recovered from both the rooms and the trash areas of the
clifF-dwellings. This seems to indicate that the metates were probably used
in the passageways between the rooms, as well as inside the rooms. All of
the metates came from rooms or other areas near the mouth of the cave at
Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling.
This typological distribution of metates is essentially similar to that re-
ported from sites previously investigated in the Reserve area (Martin and
Rinaldo, 1950b, pp. 560-561; Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, p. 111).
It also has applications in a broader geographical context. In this sequence
the basin metate precedes the trough metate with trough open at one end
only, and this trough type metate is in turn succeeded by the through
trough type. The precedence of the basin metate over the trough metate
has been noted by Haury and Sayles (1947, p, 77), Woodbury {in Kluck-
hohn and Reiter, 1939, pp. 66-67), and others. Its survival into modern
times and use by tribes such as the Havasupai (Spier, 1928, p. 114) may
account for its sporadic distribution in later levels and sites. The through
trough metate typically occurs in the later phases and sites in the south.
It is the characteristic type in the late phases of the San Simon Branch
(Sayles, 1945, p. 50), at the Swarts Ruin (Cosgrove, 1932, p. 36), in the
Babocomari Village (Di Peso, 1951, p. 131), and in other late sites of this
region.
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WORKED SLABS
(Figure 57)
Description: Thin stone slabs, roughly rectangular in outline; surfaces
smooth; flat, edges worked. Total 9.
Dimensions: Length, 19.0-54.0 cm., average, 41.9 cm.; width, 23.0-52.0
cm., average, 36.4 cm.; thickness, 1.0-10.5 cm., average, 5.1 cm.
Fig. 57. Worked slab from Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling. Length, 42.0 cm.
Discussion: The worked slabs were apparently made from relatively thin
natural slabs. The broad surfaces are relatively smooth, but not polished.
The edges of the thinner specimens have been finished with a crude percus-
sion chipping, probably done with a hammerstone; the thicker specimens
have some edges battered to shape, whereas other edges retain a natural
wind- or water-worn finish. The broad surfaces showed no traces of fire, so
it does not seem probable that they were used as griddles. None were
painted or sculptured, and none were found as paving slabs. There is a
possibility that they were used as door slabs because their size and shape
approximate that of the doors, and because some of the doors had recesses
SPECIMENS OF STONE, BONE, AND CLAY
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or projections in which such slabs would have fitted. In general these slabs
are symmetrical and indicate a certain degree of skill and care in work-
manship.
Distribution: Worked slabs were recovered only from Hinkle Park Cliff-
Dwelling. Their absence in O Block Cave and Y Canyon Cave is possibly
Fig. 58. Right, hammerstones; left, axes.
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due to the lack of houses in these sites, for they are most often recovered
from pueblo rooms. Their absence in Cosper Cliff-Dwelling might be ex-
plained by the degree to which this dwelling had been vandalized. These
slabs were common in the open sites of the Reserve Phase in Pine Lawn
Valley (Martin and Rinaldo, 1 950b, p. 452), and they were equally com-
110 CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
mon in Starkweather Ruin (Nesbitt, 1938, p. 104) and at the Swarts Ruin
(Cosgrove, 1932, p. 49). In fact, it has been pointed out by Hough (1914,
pp. 31-32) that they are particularly characteristic of the Upper Gila.
HAMMERSTONES
(Figure 58)
Description: Battered and chipped angular pebbles, some round. Total 8.
Materials: Fine-grained basalt, chalcedony.
Dimensions: Length, 5.9-8.9 cm., average, 7.5 cm.; width, 4.7-8.1 cm.,
average, 6.0 cm.; thickness, 3.3-6.5 cm., average, 5.1 cm.
ABRADING STONES
(Figure 59)
Description: Thin oblong pebbles of coarse-grained stone with worked
surfaces that show use for grinding. Total 2.
Materials: Sandstone.
Dimensions: Length, 5.1, 6.1 cm.; width, 2.7, 5.2 cm.; thickness, 1.0,
1.3 cm.
AWL SHARPENERS
(Figure 59)
Description: Long narrow pebbles with a lengthwise groove worn in one
surface. Total 2.
Materials: Fine-grained basalt, volcanic sinter.
Dimensions: Length, 6.5, 9.6 cm.; width, 1.9, 3.2 cm.; thickness, 1.6,
1.9 cm.
ARROW SHAFT TOOLS
(Figure 59)
Description: Generally oval pebbles with a single groove across one sur-
face at right angles to the long axis of the stone; one with ridge at right
angles to groove; groove polished. Total 3.
Materials: Limestone.
Dimensions: Length, 6.7, 7.2, 9.0 cm.; width, 5.0, 6.1, 6.7 cm.; thickness,
3.8, 2.5, 2.8 cm.; width of groove, 1.2, 1.0, 0.9 cm.
Fig. 59. Left, arrow shaft tools; upper right, awl sharpeners; lower right, abrading
stones. Length of lower left specimen, 7.2 cm.
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112 CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
DISCUSSION
The hammerstones grade from fairly sharp angular cores to ball-like
objects. Presumably the more rounded specimens represent the end prod-
uct of protracted use of the more angular specimens. These were probably
tools with multiple uses ranging from roughening the faces of milling stones
to crude percussion chipping.
The grooves of both the awl sharpeners and the arrow shaft tools exhibit
minute scratches that are probably the result of use, although they differ in
several respects. The grooves of the awl sharpeners are irregular, and the
ends taper off in width. The scratches within the groove run in different
directions both across and parallel to the groove. The grooves of the arrow
shaft tools are uniform in width for their entire length, and the tiny
scratches are parallel. These grooves are polished, whereas the awl sharp-
ener grooves are not.
One of the abrading stones has a sharp straight edge which is slightly
beveled on one surface, and this tool could have been used as a knife.
Distribution: Arrow shaft tools occurred only at Hinkle Park Cliff-
Dwelling. Their polished grooves indicate that they were used as arrow
shaft straighteners, rather than smoothers (Toulouse in Kluckhohn and
Reiter, 1939, p. 81). They occur at sites dated at about a.d. 1000 and later.
In area, their distribution is limited to the Southwest, including west Texas
and northern Chihuahua, and the Pacific Coast (Toulouse, op. cit., p. 86).
Since Toulouse made his study, arrow shaft straighteners similar to those
found at Hinkle Park have been reported from the Bradfield site and from
the Alamogordo sites in south central New Mexico (Lehmer, 1948, pp.
50-51, 64), the Babocomari and Tres Alamos sites in southeastern Arizona
(Di Peso, 1951, pp. 173-176; Tuthill, 1947, p. 75) and other Classic period
sites.
STONE BALLS
(Figure 60)
TYPE A
Description: Small round objects roughly formed of coarse-grained stone.
Total 7.
Materials: Sandstone concretions.
Dimensions: Diameter, 2.0-4.8 cm., average, 2.9 cm,
TYPE B
Description: Coarse-grained stone worked to shape of two tangent balls.
Total 4,
>j^#.j!4»^.
Fig. 60. Top row of specimens, left to right, stone pipe, ceremonial objects.
Lower specimens, left to right, first column, double stone balls, second column, jar
stoppers, third column, single stone balls. Diameter of lower right specimen, 4.8 cm.
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Materials: Sandstone concretions.
Dimensions: Length, 4.1, 4.0, 5.0, 3.8 cm.; width, 2.0, 2.5, 3.6, 2.2 cm.;
thickness, 2.0, 2.5, 3.6, 2.0 cm.
STONE PIPE
(Figure 60)
Description: Tubular type, tapers very Httle from larger bowl end to
smaller stem end; central perforation through pipe narrows to small hole
(ca. 4 mm. diameter) about 18 mm. from stem end. Total 1.
Materials: Scoria.
Dimensions: Length, 2.7 cm.; diameter, 2.3 cm,
CEREMONIAL (?) OBJECTS
(Figure 60)
TYPE A
Description: Roughly cylindrical piece of sandstone; groove around it
near one end, other end roughly conical; possibly phallic. Total 1.
Materials: Sandstone concretions.
Dimensions: Length, 4.4 cm.; width, 2.0 cm.; thickness, 1.8 cm.
TYPE B
Description: Small pebble, shaped like two tangent balls, one slightly
larger than the other; short projection on one side. Total 1.
Materials: Sandstone concretions.
Dimensions: Length, 2.7 cm.; width, 2.2 cm.; thickness, 1.5 cm.
DISCUSSION
The single and double sandstone balls and other concretions of different
shapes exhibit a minimum of workmanship. All the surfaces of the stone
pipe were carefully worked. Concretions of various shapes and sizes have
been found on many sites in different sections of the Southwest. These ob-
jects may have had some ritual significance.
Distribution: Stone balls and similar concretions were recovered only
from Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling, and this evidence alone would limit their
distribution to the Reserve and Tularosa phases; however, their distribu-
tion elsewhere in the Reserve area indicates that they were used through-
out the period of occupation of the area. They have been reported from
Tularosa Cave (Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, p. 112), the SU site
SPECIMENS OF STONE, BONE, AND CLAY 115
(Martin and Rinaldo, 1940, p. 62) and Turkey Foot Ridge (Martin and
Rinaldo, 1950a, p. 327). A similar distribution has been noted for other
areas of the Southwest. Stone balls were recovered at Pecos (Kidder, 1932,
p. 61), at Betatakin (Judd, 1931, p. 55), and from a Modified Basket
Maker site near Ackmen, Colorado (Martin, 1939, p. 388). The general
southern distribution of tubular pipes was noted in the report on Tularosa
Cave (Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, p. 112).
MINIATURE JAR STOPPERS (?)
(Figure 60)
Description: Small objects, circular in outline; two hemispheres joined on
their flat planes, one of smaller diameter than the other. Total 4.
Materials: Sandstone concretions.
Dimensions: Diameter, 4.3, 3.4, 3.8, 4.1 cm.
PIT COVERS
(Figure 56)
Description: Circular stone slabs chipped along edges; one worked on one
surface to fit opening of pit. Total 3.
Materials: Sandstone.
Dimensions: Diameter, 19.1, 8.6, 26.8 cm.
STONE AXES
(Figure 58)
Description: Three quarters grooved type, bit crudely flaked, broken and
battered. Total 2.
Materials: Fine-grained basalt.
Dimensions: Length, 9.4, 8.2 cm.; width, 8.4, 7.1 cm.; thickness, 5.3,
6.6 cm.
DISCUSSION
The objects termed miniature jar stoppers are called that because of
their resemblance to mushroom-shaped stone jar stoppers of larger size
found at the Village of the Great Kivas on the Zuni Reservation (Roberts,
1932, p. 141). Similar objects were termed pigment grinders by Fewkes
(1904, p. 104), and they also appear in the collections from Chetro Ketl at
the Museum of New Mexico. The specimens from Hinkle Park Cliff-
Dwelling are too small for use on anything but miniature vessels.
116 CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
These jar stoppers were subjected to a minimum of modification in
shape. The natural outlines of one or two specimens have been sharpened
and emphasized by deepening the groove separating the two halves of the
specimen (as was done with the double stone balls), but otherwise they
were left unworked. The pit covers were likewise only worked on their
edges or made to fit the mouth of the pit by beveling the lower surface.
They lack well-smoothed flat surfaces or regular edges. In fact, they re-
main very nearly as they were when they were split off" from larger slabs.
The axes, on the other hand, although now mere battered relics of what
they must have been when new, do show considerable workmanship. The
grooves, or channels, are uniform and smooth, the heads, or polls, and
sides well worked and possibly even polished at one time. They appear to
have been flaked to sharpen their bits, and their present battered condition
indicates that they ended up by being used as hammerstones, or mauls.
One of the pit covers was in place over the mouth of a small pit.
Distribution: Hinkle Park Cliff"-Dwelling was the only one of the four
sites in which miniature jar stoppers, pit covers, and axes were found. No
other stone mushroom-shaped jar stoppers have been recovered in the
Pine Lawn Valley. Stone disks which may have been pit covers were re-
covered at the SU site (Martin, 1943, p. 222) and at Turkey Foot Ridge
(Martin and Rinaldo, 1950a, p. 328). These objects are reported from
numerous Anasazi sites, as well as Mogollon sites. They have been reported
in situ as pit covers at Pecos (Kidder, 1932, pp. 75-76), at the Babocomari
village (Di Peso, 1951, p. 145), at the Village of the Great Kivas (Roberts,
1 932, p. 1 44), and at a Modified Basket Maker site near Ackmen, Colorado
(Martin, 1939, p. 372).
The three quarters grooved ax is typical of the Hohokam and probably
has an ultimate source farther to the south (Reed, 1951, p. 45). It is found
in Chihuahua, San Simon, Dragoon, Mimbres, Sinagua, Cibola and
Salado branches and also in late prehistoric Hopi and Zuni sites. Three
quarters grooved axes were reported both from the Turkey Foot Ridge site
(Martin and Rinaldo, 1950a, p. 334) and the Reserve Phase sites in the
Pine Lawn Valley (Martin and Rinaldo, 1950b, p. 480).
PROJECTILE POINTS
(Figures 61-65)
TYPE A-1
Description: Corner notched, slightly expanding stem narrower than
shoulder, thinned, concave base (fig. 61, a, b, c). Total 6.
Materials: Obsidian, fine-grained basalt, jasper.
Fig. 61. Projectile points, types A, B, and D. Length of z^, 2.1 cm.
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Dimensions: Length, 3.2, 3.2, 2.8 cm., remainder fragments; width, 1.8,
2.2, 1.9, 1.9, 1.4, 1.2 cm.; thickness, 0.6, 0.8, 0.8, 0.5, 0.6, 0.5 cm.
TYPE A-2
Description: Leaf shape, concave base (fig. 61, d, e). Total 2.
Materials: Fine-grained basalt.
Dimensions: Length, 3.5, 4.9 cm.; width, 2.6, 2.4 cm.; thickness, 1.0,
0.9 cm.
TYPE B-1
Description: Diagonal notched, expanding stem narrower than shoulder,
base straight to convex; down-raking barbs, relatively large size (fig. 61,/,
g, h). Total 6.
Materials: Fine-grained basalt, chert.
Dimensions: Length, 4.9 cm., remainder fragments (3.8-5.8 cm.) ; width,
2.6, 2.8, 3.0, 3.6, 3.1, 2.8 cm.; thickness, 0.6, 0.7, 0.7, 0.8, 0.7, 0.5 cm.
TYPE B-2
Description: Diagonal notched, expanding stem narrower than shoulder,
base convex, broad blade, down-raking barbs, medium size (fig. 61, i,j, k,
I). Total 19.
Materials: Obsidian, chert, chalcedony, fine-grained basalt.
Dimensions: Length, 2.4-3.5 cm., average, 3.0 cm.; width, 1.8-2.7 cm.,
average, 2.1 cm.; thickness, 0.3-0.7 cm., average, 0.4 cm.
TYPE B-3
Z)^^^^/?^^.* Diagonal notched, expanding stem narrower than shoulder,
base convex, down-raking barbs, longer and narrower proportions (fig.
61, w). Total 1.
Materials: Chert.
Dimensions: Length, 3.8 cm.; width, 2.6 cm.; thickness, 0.5 cm.
TYPE B-4
Description: Diagonal notched, expanding stem narrower than shoulder,
base convex, broad blade, down-raking barbs, smaller and thinner points
(fig. 61, n, 0, p, q). Total 14.
Materials: Obsidian, chert.
Dimensions: Length, 1.4-2.5 cm., average, 2.1 cm.; width, 1.1-1.8 cm.,
average, 1.5 cm.; thickness, 0.2-0.5 cm., average, 0.3 cm.
Fig. 62. Projectile points, types C and E-G. Length of s, 3.0 cm.
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120 CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
TYPE C
Description: Deep lateral notched, straight base, expanding stem nar-
rower than shoulder, sharp lateral barbs (fig. 62, f). Total 1.
Material: Chert.
Dimensions: Length, 2.6 cm.; width, 1.6 cm.; thickness, 0.5 cm.
TYPE D
Description: Small, shallow lateral notched, straight base narrower than
shoulder, two specimens with serrate edges (fig. 61, r-v). Total 14.
Materials: Obsidian, fine-grained basalt, jasper, chert.
Dimensions: Length, 1.7-3.0 cm., average, 2.3 cm.; width, 1.4-2.1 cm.,
average, 1.6 cm.; thickness, 0.3-0.7 cm., average, 0.5 cm.
TYPE E-1
Description: Lateral notched, slender, expanding base narrower than
shoulder, base straight to convex, sharp lateral barbs (fig. 62, a-e). Total
13.
Materials: Fine-grained basalt, flint.
Dimensions: Length, 3.6-4.4 cm., average, 4.1 cm.; width, 1.8-2.5 cm.,
average, 2.1 cm.; thickness, 0.5-0.8 cm., average, 0.6 cm.
TYPE E-2
Description: Lateral notched, expanding base narrower than shoulder,
straight base, lateral barbs; thick broad blade (fig. 62, g-j). Total 10.
Materials: Fine-grained basalt, chert, obsidian.
Dimensions: Length, 2.9-3.6 cm., average, 3.3 cm.; width, 1.7-2.1 cm.,
average, 1.9 cm.; thickness, 0.4-0.7 cm., average, 0.5 cm.
TYPE E-3
Description: Lateral notched, expanding base as wide as shoulder, barbs
small (fig. 62, k, I). Total 4.
Materials: Fine-grained basalt, chert.
Dimensions: Length, 5.1, 6.2 cm., remainder fragments; width, 1.8, 1.8,
2.5, 3.3 cm.; thickness, 0.8, 0.3, 0.8, 0.7 cm.
TYPE E-4
Description: Large, shallow lateral notched, expanding base slightly con-
vex (fig. 62, m, n). Total 9.
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Materials: Fine-grained basalt, flint, chalcedony.
Dimensions: Length, 3.4-4.9 cm., average, 3.9 cm.; width, 1.3-1.8 cm.,
average, 1.5 cm.; thickness, 0.4-0.7 cm., average, 0.5 cm.
TYPE F-1
Description: Lateral notched, expanding base wider than shoulder, base
straight, sharp lateral barbs (fig. 62, a). Total 1.
Material: Fine-grained basalt.
Dimensions: Length, 3.7 cm.; width, 2.2 cm.; thickness, 0.7 cm.
TYPE F-2
Description: Shallow lateral notched, expanding base narrower than
shoulder, small points with convex edges (fig. 62, p, q). Total 4.
Materials: Obsidian, fine-grained basalt, chert.
Dimensions: Length, 3.3, 3.3 cm., remainder fragments; width, 1.5, 1.5,
1.3, 1.4 cm.; thickness, 0.5, 0.6, 0.4, 0.3 cm.
TYPE G
Description: Shallow lateral notched, convex base, convex edges (fig. 62,
r, s). Total 4.
Materials: Obsidian, chalcedony.
Dimensions: Length, 3.0, 2.5, 3.0, 2.5 cm.; width, 1.8, 2.0, 1.9, 1.6 cm.;
thickness, 0.6, 0.7, 0.5, 0.3 cm.
TYPE H
Description: Small, lateral notched and barbed, expanding stem nar-
rower than shoulder, convex base (fig. 63, a-e). Total 17.
Materials: Obsidian, fine-grained basalt, chalcedony.
Dimensions: Length, 2.1-3.1 cm., average, 2.5 cm.; width, 1.4-1.9 cm.,
average, 1.6 cm.; thickness, 0.3-0.6 cm., average, 0.5 cm.
TYPE I
Description: Broad straight stem, straight base, sharp lateral barbs (fig.
63,/,^). Total 2.
Materials: Fine-grained basalt.
Dimensions: Length, 3.3, 3.9 cm.; width, 2.3, 2.3 cm.; thickness, 0.7,
0.6 cm.
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TYPE J
Description: Shallow lateral notched, expanding stem as wide as shoulder,
sharp lateral barbs, relatively small points (fig. 63, h). Total 1.
Materials: Chalcedony.
Dimensions: Length, 2.0 cm.; width, 1.6 cm.; thickness, 0.5 cm.
TYPE K
Description: Oval, single corner notched, one edge less convex than the
other (fig. 63, i). Total 1.
Materials: Obsidian.
Dimensions: Length, 1.6 cm.; width, 1.5 cm.; thickness, 0.4 cm.
TYPE L
Description: Roughly leaf-shaped; upper portion of edges convex, basal
portion straight (fig. 63, j-n). Total 10.
Materials: Obsidian, fine-grained basalt, flint.
Dimensions: Length, 2.0-3.4 cm., average, 2.4 cm.; width, 1.6-2.4 cm.,
average, 1.9 cm.; thickness, 0.4-0.8 cm., average, 0.5 cm.
TYPE M-1
Description: Roughly leaf-shaped to ovoid, convex base, convex edges,
relatively thin specimens (fig. 63, o, p, q). Total 10.
Materials: Obsidian, fine-grained basalt, chert.
Dimensions: Length, 2.1-3.6 cm., average, 2.8 cm.; width, 1.5-2.1 cm.,
average, 1.7 cm.; thickness, 0.4-0.6 cm., average, 0.5 cm.
TYPE M-2
Description: Thick, roughly leaf-shaped to ovoid, large blades (fig. 65).
Total 7.
Materials: Fine-grained basalt.
Dimensions: Length, 11.0, 9.7, 11.4, 11.5, 12.4, 10.3, 5.6 cm.; width, 5.1,
4.9, 4.1, 4.5, 4.7, 3.0, 3.7 cm.; thickness, 1.2, 0.8, 0.9, 1.0, 1.1, 0.9, 1.2 cm.
TYPE M-3
Description: Leaf-shaped, convex base, convex edges, thick (fig. 63, r, s).
Total 3.
Materials: Chert, flint.
Dimensions: Length, 3.4, 3.5, 4.1 cm.; width, 1.6, 1.9, 2.1 cm.; thickness,
1.0, 0.8, 0.9 cm.
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Fig. 63. Projectile points, types H-M-1, M-3, N-1, O, P. Length oi x, 3.6 cm.
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TYPE M-4
Description: Narrow, leaf-shaped, convex base (fig. 64, a, b, c). Total 3.
Materials: Fine-grained basalt.
Dimensions: Length, 3.8, 3.7, 3.1 cm.; width, 1.4, 1.7, 1.5 cm.; thickness,
0.6, 0.6, 0.4 cm.
TYPE M-5
Description: Convex base fragments possibly of leaf-shaped points. To-
tal 5.
Materials: Obsidian, fine-grained basalt, flint.
Dimensions: Length (all fragments); width, 2.9, 2.2, 2.5, 2.2, 2.2 cm.;
thickness, 0.8, 0.6, 0.8, 0.5, 0.6 cm.
TYPE N-1
Description: Leaf-shaped, straight base (fig. 63, t, u, v). Total 3.
Materials: Obsidian, flint.
Dimensions: Length, 3.2, 3.2, 3.1 cm.; width, 1.8, 1.4, 2.2 cm.; thickness,
0.6, 0.6, 0.8 cm.
TYPE N-2
Description: Straight base fragments, some with parallel edges. Total 8.
Materials: Fine-grained basalt, obsidian, chert.
Dimensions: Length (all fragments); width, 1.5-3.4 cm., average, 2.3
cm.; thickness, 0.4-0.9 cm., average, 0.7 cm.
TYPE O
Description: Roughly leaf-shaped blades with points off" center (fig. 63,
w). Total 2.
Materials: Fine-grained basalt, flint.
Dimensions: Length, 3.2, 3.1 cm.; width, 2.0, 1.9 cm.; thickness, 0.7, 0.6
cm.
TYPE P
Description: Lateral notched, expanding stem, ear-like divided tang, tri-
angular blades with concave bases (fig. 63, x). Total 2.
Materials: Fine-grained basalt, obsidian.
Dimensions: Length, 3.6, 2.8 cm.; width, 2.4, 1.8 cm.; thickness, 0.6,
0.5 cm.
SPECIMENS OF STONE, BONE, AND CLAY 125
TYPE Q
Description: Contracting stem bases with lateral barbs, one specimen
with down-raking barbs (fig. 64, e). Total 6.
Materials: Fine-grained basalt, jasper, obsidian, copperish chalcedony.
Dimensions: Length, 5.5 cm., remainder fragmentary; width, 3.3, 2.0,
2.1, 1.8, 2.7, 1.9 cm.; thickness, 0.6, 0.7, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.7 cm.
TYPE R
Description: Broad triangular blade with shallow notched base (fig.
64, a'). Total 1.
Materials: Jasper.
Dimensions: Length, 4.7 cm.; width, 3.5 cm.; thickness, 0.6 cm.
TYPE S
Description: Small triangular, many lateral notched and with serrate
edges (fig. 64, k-x). Total 33.
Materials: Obsidian, flint.
Dimensions: Length, 1.1-2.5 cm., average, 2.0 cm.; width, 0.8-1.8 cm.,
average, 1.1 cm.; thickness, 0.1-0.5 cm., average, 0.3 cm.
TYPE T
Description: Small round stem, round shoulder, shallow lateral notched
(fig. 64, d). Total 1.
Materials: Obsidian.
Dimensions: Length, 2.4 cm.; width, 1.5 cm.; thickness, 0.4 cm.
TYPE U
Description: Chip points; thin leaf-shaped flakes modified mostly on
edges or on one surface; two specimens with lateral notches and serrate
edges (fig. 64, /-j). Total 13.
Materials: Obsidian, fine-grained basalt.
Dimensions: Length, 1.8-4.4 cm., average, 2.6 cm.; width, 1.1-2.6 cm.,
average, 1.5 cm.; thickness, 0.3-0.6 cm., average, 0.4 cm.
TYPE V
Description: Miscellaneous specimens:
(1) Small, straight stem, rounded shoulder (fig. 64,^).
(2) Small, broad divided tang, indented base (fig. 64, c').
V
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' J
k
m n 0 P
t U V w X
Fig. 64. Projectile points, types M-4 and Q-V. Length of d', 5.7 cm.
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SPECIMENS OF STONE, BONE, AND CLAY
127
Fig. 65. Projectile points (types M-2 and V-5) or blades from O Block Cave.
Length of lower right specimen, 10.3 cm.
(3) Corner notched, broad stem, thinned base (fig. 64, z)-
(4) Large, straight stem, rounded shoulder (fig. 64, b').
(5) Edges of blade parallel, point off" center, base indented and thinned,
shoulder more pronounced on one edge (fig. 65, top center).
(6) Slender, long straight stem, rounded shoulder (fig. 64, d').
Materials: Fine-grained basalt, obsidian, jasper, novaculitic chalcedony.
128 CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
Dimensions: Length, 3.1, 2.7, 4.7, 10.0, 5.2, 5.7 cm.; width, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1,
2.5, 2.6, 1.8 cm.; thickness, 0.6, 0.4, 0.5, 0.7, 0.9, 0.7 cm.
TYPE W
Description: Too fragmentary to classify; 46 tips, 17 bases, 13 blade
fragments. Total 76.
Materials: Fine-grained basalt, obsidian, chert, chalcedony, flint.
Dimensions: Length, all fragments; widths, 0.7-3.0 cm., average, 1.8
cm.; thickness, 0.3-1.1 cm., average, 0.5 cm.
FLAKE KNIVES
(Figure 66)
TYPE A
Description: Random flake type; oblong thin flakes with some chipping
along one or more edges, possibly from use; no regularity of outline
(fig. 66, right). Total 204.
Materials: Obsidian, fine-grained basalt, chalcedony, jasper, chert, flint.
Dimensions: Length, 1.2-5.3 cm., average, 2.7 cm.; width, 0.9-3.8 cm.,
average, 1.8 cm.; thickness, 0.2-0.9 cm., average, 0.5 cm.
TYPE B
Description: Biface type; relatively thin flakes with one or more edges and
surfaces worked by secondary chipping, frequently elongated in outline
(fig. 66, left). Total 23.
Materials: Obsidian, fine-grained basalt, jasper, chalcedony.
Dimensions: Length, 1.7-6.5 cm., average, 2.9 cm.; width, 1.2-3.4 cm.,
average, 1.8 cm.; thickness, 0.4-0.9 cm., average, 0.7 cm.
SCRAPERS
(Figures 67-69)
Side Scrapers
TYPE A
Description: Thick flakes with some poorly directed secondary chipping
(possibly from use) along one edge, plano-convex in cross section; convex
surface shaped by percussion chipping; no regularity of outline (fig. 67,
center row). Total 32.
Materials: Fine-grained basalt, rhyolite, chert.
Fig. 66. Knives: left to right, biface and random flake types. Length of bottom
right specimen, 6.5 cm.
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130 CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
Dimensions: Length, 2.5-7.7 cm., average, 4.5 cm.; width, 1.8-5.8 cm.,
average, 3.4 cm.; thickness, 0.7-2.4 cm., average, 1.3 cm.
TYPE B
Description: Large, rough, thick, angular flakes, generally plano-convex in
cross section with steep retouch along one edge (fig. 67, left row). Total 4.
Materials: Fine-grained basalt, rhyolite.
Dimensions: Length, 9.6, 9.4, 8.5, 6.8 cm.; width, 6.0, 5.3, 8.0, 7.3 cm.;
thickness, 2.7, 3.5, 3.4, 2.7 cm.
TYPE G
Description: Small, rough, thick, angular flakes, generally piano convex
in cross section with steep retouch (30° to 90° along one edge) (fig. 67,
right row). Total 29.
Materials: Fine-grained basalt, rhyolite, chert.
Dimensions: Length, 3.2-7.8 cm., average, 5.2 cm.; width, 2.0-6.1 cm.,
average, 3.7 cm.; thickness, 0.9-2.4 cm., average, 1.5 cm.
TYPE D
Description: Small, relatively thin flakes with flat retouch along one edge
(fig. 68, a,f, i). Total 23.
Materials: Fine-grained basalt, chert, rhyolite.
Dimensions: Length, 3.2-9.1 cm., average, 4.8 cm.; width, 2.5-6.4 cm.,
average, 3.9 cm.; thickness, 0.7-1.3 cm., average, 1.0 cm.
TYPE E
Description: Thick nodules, generally circular in outline, plano-convex in
cross section, with sides steeply chipped into deep notches that form a large-
toothed serrate edge (fig. 68, c, e, h, k). Total 4.
Materials: Fine-grained basalt.
Dimensions: Length, 5.8, 5.2, 5.2, 5.3 cm.; width, 3.9, 5.1, 5.2, 4.6 cm.;
thickness, 1.8, 2.1, 1.9, 2.3 cm.
TYPE F
Description: Small, thick, oblong, keel-shaped in cross section with sec-
ondary chipping along one or more edges (fig. 68, b, d, g,j). Total 4.
Materials: Obsidian, fine-grained basalt, rhyolite.
Dimensions: Length, 4.0, 3.2, 3.5, 4.2 cm.; width, 2.5, 1.6, 2.7, 2.4 cm.;
thickness, 1.3, 1.3, 1.4, 1.2 cm.
Fig. 67. Scrapers: left, large, rough, thick; center, random flake; and right,
small, rough, thick types. Length of bottom right specimen, 5.9 cm.
131
Fig. 68. Scrapers: thin flake {a, f, i), small keel-shaped {b, d, g,j), and serrate
{c, e, h, k) types. Length of k, 5.2 cm.
132
Fig. 69. Scrapers: end scrapers {a-n), biface scrapers {o-r), and hollow-edged
scrapers {s-v). Length of v, 3.3 cm.
133
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TYPE G
Description: Thick convex flakes with chipping on both surfaces and one
or more edges (fig. 69, o-r). Total 17.
Materials: Fine-grained basalt, chert, chalcedony, obsidian.
Dimensions: Length, 2.8-7.0 cm., average, 4.9 cm.; width, 2.1-5.8 cm.,
average, 3.2 cm.; thickness, 0.8-3.2 cm., average, 1.3 cm.
Hollow-Edged Scrapers
Description: Small thick flakes with indentations chipped into the edges
(fig. 69, s-v). Total 5.
Materials: Fine-grained basalt, obsidian.
Dimensions: Length, 3.5, 3.3, 3.3, 2.3, 5.5 cm.; width, 2.7, 1.6, 3.3, 2.2,
2.3 cm.; thickness, 1.6, 0.5, 0.9, 0.6, 0.6 cm.
End Scrapers
TYPE A
Description: Thick flakes, oval in outline, plano-convex in cross section;
secondary chipping on convex surface and at broad end of plane surface;
narrow end of plane surface unaltered (fig. 69, a-e). Total 10.
Materials: Obsidian, chert.
Dimensions: Length, 2.4-4.8 cm., average, 2.8 cm.; width, 1.5-3.5 cm.,
average, 2.0 cm.; thickness, 0.6-1.2 cm., average, 0.9 cm.
TYPE B
Description: Flakes with square ends, plano-convex in cross section, ob-
long in outline; secondary chipping on convex surface and at broad end of
flat surface (fig. 69, f-n). Total 11.
Materials: Fine-grained basalt, obsidian, chert.
Dimensions: Length, 2.3-4.8 cm., average, 3.7 cm.; width, 1.8-4.0 cm.,
average, 2.8 cm.; thickness, 0.7-1.2 cm., average, 1.0 cm.
DISCOID AL
Description: Small round disk with secondary chipping on both surfaces
and around the edges. Total 1 .
Materials: Obsidian.
Dimensions: Diameter, 1.1 cm.; thickness, 0.2 cm.
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135
Fig. 70. Choppers. Length of bottom right specimen, 9.0 cm.
CHOPPERS
(Figure 70)
TYPE A
Description: Plano-convex choppers or scraper planes; large, thick, angu-
lar implements; no regularity of outline; percussion-flaked part way
around margin to produce cutting edge; part of original surface of pebble
left intact. Total 8.
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Materials: Basalt, rhyolite, chalcedony.
Dimensions: Length, 7.7-12.2 cm., average, 9.1 cm.; width, 6.0-9.0 cm.,
average, 6.9 cm.; thickness, 2.7-6.7 cm., average, 4.4 cm.
TYPE B
Description: Thick, angular implements; percussion-flaked on two sur-
faces to form a sharp cutting edge; trimmed to edge part way around; part
of original surface of pebble left intact. Total 2.
Materials: Fine-grained basalt.
Dimensions: Length, 7.0, 7.6 cm.; width, 6.8, 7.3 cm.; thickness, 3.1, 4.1
cm.
DRILLS
(Figure 71)
TYPE A-1
Description: Sharpened slender flake tapering gradually to a point;
wedge-shaped in cross section (fig. 71, a). Total 1.
Materials: Chalcedony.
Dimensions: Length, 4.5 cm.; width, 1.3 cm.; thickness, 1.1 cm.
TYPE A-2
Description: Sharpened flake with point tapering from a relatively wide
base (fig. 71, ^). Total 1.
Materials: Chalcedony.
Dimensions: Length, 2.9 cm.; width, 1.9 cm.; thickness, 0.4 cm.
TYPE B
Description: Plain shafted type; long, slender flake, lenticular in cross
section; secondary chipping on both surfaces and edges; tapers to a point
(fig. 71, c, d). Total 2.
Materials: Chert, obsidian.
Dimensions: Length, 4.1, 3.4 cm.; width, 1.2, 1.0 cm.; thickness, 0.5, 0.5
cm.
TYPE C-1
Description: Small, abruptly widening flange with a long slender tapering
point (fig. 71,/). Total 1.
Materials: Chalcedony.
Dimensions: Length, 4.1 cm.; width, 1.5 cm.; thickness, 0.5 cm.
44t
m
Fig. 71. Drills {a-d, f-l), gravers (jn, n), and saw (e). Length of n, 4.1 cm.
137
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TYPE C-2
Description: Slender points tapering from a relatively large broad base
(fig. 71, g, h, i,j). Total 4.
Materials: Fine-grained basalt, chalcedony.
Dimensions: Length, 3.8, 4.1, 4.4, 4.6 cm.; width, 1.9, 2.3, 1.7, 1.8 cm.;
thickness, 0.8, 0.8, 0.7, 0.9 cm.
TYPE D
Description: Reworked projectile points (fig. 71, k, I). Total 2.
Materials: Obsidian, fine-grained basalt.
Dimensions: Length, 3.1, 2.3 cm.; width, 1.5, 1.7 cm.; thickness, 0.5,
0.4 cm.
SAW
Description: Thin flake, plano-convex in cross section; one edge deeply
indented; serrate, teeth regularly spaced (fig. 71, e). Total 1.
Materials: Chalcedony.
Dimensions: Length, 2.0 cm.; width, 1.8 cm.; thickness, 0.7 cm.
GRAVERS
Description: Thin flakes with short points chipped from one face only
(fig. 71, m, n). Total 2.
Materials: Obsidian, fine-grained basalt.
Dimensions: Length, 4.1, 3.2 cm.; width, 3.3, 1.3 cm.; thickness, 0.8,
0.3 cm.
DISCUSSION
The chipped stone artifacts present a gradient from the finest type of
work, wherein the major surfaces and edges were subjected to a carefully
directed secondary chipping, as in projectile points, blades, drills, and
biface scrapers, down to utilized flake knives and scrapers which can
scarcely be distinguished from the ordinary by-products of flint manufac-
ture. Specimens such as projectile points and other artifacts with secondary
chipping on all major surfaces and edges are in a bare majority (52 per
cent) of the chipped stone implements in this collection. The remaining 48
per cent exhibit lesser degrees of modification rarely exceeding a little
retouch on one edge or end.
According to the evidence of the small, but significant number of hafted
specimens found at Tularosa Cave (Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952,
SPECIMENS OF STONE, BONE, AND CLAY 139
p. 107) and elsewhere in the Upper Gila (Cosgrove, 1947, pp. 62-65), the
majority of the notched specimens listed under projectile points and blades
were probably used as dart points, or arrow points. On the other hand,
there are a few exceptions (those listed under "V-5" and "K," for ex-
ample) which have points off center and were more likely used as some
form of cutting tool.
Evidence as to the use of the projectile points and blades without notches
is lacking for the Mogollon and is not plentiful for the Anasazi, who appar-
ently used them for knives (Morris, 1919, p. 32). Once again the use of the
artifacts called drills is based on very little evidence other than historic
analogy (Martin, 1934). Also, the distinction between drills and elongated,
slender projectile points with straight edges such as that illustrated in figure
64, f ', is a subjective one. The basic distinction according to Kidder's classi-
fication is whether the edges are more or less parallel (Kidder, 1932, p. 24).
In some instances this seems a difliicult distinction to make (fig. 71, d).
Scraper and knife categories also tend to grade into one another. In
general, however, the specimens termed scrapers here are larger, thicker,
more convex, and have a steeper retouch on the edge, or end. The radically
differing shape of end scrapers and hollow edged scrapers would logically
lead us to believe that they had different uses. However, aside from his-
toric analogy, there is definite evidence of use only for side scrapers (Mar-
tin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, p. 107), the plant tissue remaining on their
edges.
The specimens termed gravers have the characteristic short points of
implements of this type. On the other hand, engraving on antler, bone, or
stone is lacking among the Mogollon, and it seems probable that these
particular specimens had another use; they may have been perforators.
A cache of five large basalt blades was found in Square C-1, level 8, a
Pre-Pottery Phase section of O Block Cave. They were found under a large
rock and although they were not laid in a heap they occurred so close to-
gether that they may have been cached at the same time. In size and shape
(fig. 65) they are reminiscent of the mosaic encrusted blade from Poncho
House, Arizona (Guernsey, 1931, p. 103, pis. 1, 24). They are nicely
chipped and not hafted, but whether they represent utilitarian knives or
"ceremonial" blades remains a matter for conjecture.
Distribution: In the process of classifying the projectile points from the
1952 excavations a test was made of the projectile point typology formu-
lated from the previous excavations in caves and open sites of the area.
This was done by assigning each of the excavation sections of O Block
Cave (levels in particular squares or rooms) to a Phase on the basis of the
types of projectile points found therein. This Phase assignment was then
140 CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
checked against a similar analysis based on pottery types; for example, two
of the three projectile points from Square B-1, level 2, O Block Cave, were
of types (B-4 and F-2; the third was a fragment) which had predominantly
a late distribution in Tularosa and Cordova caves. The Three Circle
Phase was indicated, and so this section was assigned to that Phase. This
assignment was then checked against the pottery types (Three Circle Neck
Corrugated, Three Circle Red-on-White, etc.; see p. 63) from that section
and found to agree.
In a few such sections from the top levels the late types were found to be
in the majority, but the situation was seldom as clear-cut as in the Pre-
Pottery levels, where there was apparently less mixing. In the case of the
intermediate levels, this mixing, the result partly of the arbitrary system of
excavation by blocks and partly of natural churning by rodents and human
occupants (see Haury, 1950, p. 206; Cressman, 1951, p. 307), was even
more noticeable. For this reason Pine Lawn Phase projectile point types
did not occur exclusively in any section of O Block Cave. In fact, early,
intermediate, and late type projectile points were juxtaposed in all the
middle sections, and the relative frequency of specimens of the different
types was the decisive factor in the Phase assignments of the middle levels.
In eighteen sections from this cave it was impossible to make any Phase
assignment either because there were no projectile points or because the
projectile points found were too fragmentary to classify. However, the as-
signment made in thirty-seven sections of the remaining forty-four was cor-
roborated either by the pottery analysis or by stratigraphic position in Pre-
Pottery levels. In seven sections the assignment was not corroborated, but
there was only one diagnostic projectile point in each of four of these.
We believe that this analysis shows that the various types of projectile
points used are of some value as horizon markers. On the other hand, we
do not claim that this is the only useful classification of these specimens. A
little more than half (16) out of the total number of types common to the
several cave sequences were found to be consistent in their distribution.
For example, the small, thin, diagonal notched type (B-4) was found pre-
dominantly in the late sites and in the upper levels of the mixed sites; and
the corner notched, thinned, concave base projectile points (A-1) were
predominantly from the lower levels of the cave sequences (Martin,
Rinaldo, and others, 1952, pp. 113-115, fig. 70). The following types were
found to occur predominantly in the Pre- Pottery levels: A-1, D, E-2, G, H,
I, O, U. Others, such as types E-1 and L, occur predominantly in the Pine
Lawn and Georgetown phases; and still others, such as B-4, F-1, F-2, P, S,
and T, were found most frequently in the late sites and levels assigned to
the Reserve and Tularosa phases.
SPECIMENS OF STONE, BONE, AND CLAY 141
The other types were found to be poor horizon markers because they
were too rare in their occurrence or too inconsistent in their distribution.
A notched blade (V-5) which has been shaped by good parallel flaking
is reminiscent of the Type 2 Sandia points (Hibben, 1941, p. 25, pi. 12, <:).
Although it came from much too high a level (Square C-3, level 4, Pine
Lawn Phase) to be ascribed to the early culture, it is also an anomaly in the
later context.
The majority of the serrate side scrapers and oval end scrapers came
from the earlier levels of the caves, as they did in Tularosa and Cordova
caves (Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, pp. 115-116). The various
other types of side scrapers were about evenly distributed from early to
late.
Although drills occurred in all levels of the caves, there was a tendency
for more of them to occur in the earlier levels. Drills were not numerous.
Flake knives were the most numerous type of chipped stone artifact.
They occurred in all levels of the excavations, but with some tendency to
be most numerous in the earlier levels. There was no diff"erence in the
average dimensions of the flake knives from the early and the late levels in
spite of the tendency for more of the late projectile points to be smaller.
The paucity of choppers is perhaps correlated with the late occupation
of over half the sites and levels excavated. The occurrence of two grooved
axes in Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling and others at Turkey Foot Ridge (Mar-
tin and Rinaldo, 1950a, p. 334) and at the Reserve Phase sites in the Pine
Lawn Valley (Martin and Rinaldo, 1950b, p. 480) indicates that choppers
were used contemporaneously with hafted axes.
STONE BEADS
(Figure 72, h, i)
TYPE A
Description: Fragment of rectangular bead; secondary hole partially
drilled through at right angles to original perforation; possibly part of
compound bead. Total 1.
Materials: Turquoise.
Dimensions: Length, 0.8 cm.; width, 0.6 cm.; thickness, 0.5 cm.
TYPE B
Description: Smooth red stone cylindrical object; beginning of hole
drilled in one end. Total 1.
Materials: Jasper.
Dimensions: Length, 2.2 cm.; diameter, 0.7 cm.
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STONE PENDANTS
(Figure 72, g, j, k, I)
TYPE A
Description: Ovoid in outline; thin, tabular, smooth, perforated near
small end; one specimen with malachite coating on one surface; the other
with notches incised along the edges. Total 2.
Materials: Clay, malachite, bone.
Dimensions: Length, 2.2, 2.6 cm.; width, 1.8, 1.6 cm.; thickness, 0.4,
0.3 cm.
TYPE B
Description: Rectangular with rounded ends in outline; thin, tabular,
smooth; perforated near one end. Total 1.
Materials: Gypsum.
Dimensions: Length, 2.1 cm.; width, 1.5 cm.; thickness, 0.2 cm.
TYPE C
Description: Small, thick piece of calcite, rectangular in outline, plano-
convex in cross section; three quarters grooved around middle. Total 1.
Materials: Calcite.
Dimensions: Length, 2.1 cm.; width, 1.2 cm.; thickness, 0.8 cm.
SHELL BRACELETS
(Figure 72, ^,/)
TYPE A
Description: Thin-cut curved sections of bivalve shell, rectangular in
cross section, almost as wide as high. Total 1 .
Materials: Glycymeris shell.
Dimensions: Diameter, 5.4 cm.; height, 0.5 cm.; width, 0.4 cm.
TYPE B
Description: Thin fiat section of bivalve shell rim, notches carved in edges
at intervals. Total 1.
Materials: Glycymeris shell.
Dimensions: Length (fragment), 3.8 cm.; width, 0.7 cm.; thickness,
0.4 cm.
Fig. 72. Pendants, bracelets, needle, and beads. Length of /, 2.2 cm.
143
144 CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
SHELL PENDANTS
(Figure 72, a, c)
TYPE A
Description: Thin section of shell, probably originally a disk with smooth
edges; small hole drilled near one edge; three small notches incised in con-
cave surface opposite this hole. Total 1 .
Dimensions: Diameter, 2.6 cm.; thickness, 0.2 cm.
TYPE B
Description: Thin rectangular section of bivalve shell made at umbo;
umbo pierced for suspension. Total 1.
Materials: Glycymeris shell.
Dimensions: Length, 3.5 cm.; width, 1.1 cm.; thickness, 0.4 cm.
SHELL NEEDLE
(Figure 72, e)
Description: Curved tusk-like rim section of bivalve shell, sharp polished
point at one end, other end broken, eye missing. Total 1 .
Materials: Glycymeris shell.
Dimensions: Length, 4.6 cm.; width, 0.5 cm.; thickness, 0.3 cm.
SHELL BEAD
(Figure 72, b)
Description: Short tubular bead. Total 1.
Dimensions: Diameter, 0.9 cm.; thickness, 0.4 cm.
DISCUSSION
The beads, pendants, and other ornaments were probably worked to
shape by cutting and polishing them with flake knives and abrading stones.
The small holes in the thicker pendants were often drilled from both sides,
meeting in the center; the thinner specimens were drilled only from one
side. The result is that the holes in most pendants are of an hourglass shape,
with the diameter smallest at the center and increasing towards either sur-
face. This could have been done with the stone drills, inasmuch as their
points fit the holes in the pendants.
Glycymeris shell was a favorite material for bracelets and occasionally
was used for pendants. The centers of these shells were cut out and the
remaining rims ground and polished smooth. The specimens in the 1952
SPECIMENS OF STONE, BONE, AND CLAY 145
collection do not show the marks of the cutting tool. These shell ornaments
were probably imported by trade from the Gulf of California; at least the
resulting center blanks are to be found on shell heaps in northern Sonora
(Woodward, 1936, p. 117). We also have some blanks in the Chicago
Natural History Museum collections from the same area.
The uses of the beads and pendants are largely conjectural and based on
historic analogy, although specimens were found in Tularosa Cave with
strings long enough to indicate that they were worn on a string around the
neck, rather than as ear-rings (Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, p. 184,
fig. 61). The evidence for bracelets as such is much better, for numerous
specimens have been found with burials, for example, at the SU site (Mar-
tin and Rinaldo, 1940, p. 68) and at the Swarts Ruin (Cosgrove, 1932,
p. 66).
Distribution: The evidence is as yet inconclusive regarding the use of the
shapes of tabular pendants as diagnostic attributes for a horizon marker or
in geographical distribution studies. Oval and rectangular shapes are
found throughout the Southwest in all periods. Other shapes may even-
tually turn out to be diagnostic. On the other hand the distribution of shell
bracelets is more to the south (Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, p. 117;
Tower, 1945, p. 29).
The use of shell for needles is the only known strictly utilitarian use to
which the Mogollon Indians put this material. Shell needles have been
reported from Snaketown, the Santa Cruz and Sacaton phases (Gladwin
and others, 1937, pp. 138-139), the Babocomari Village (Di Peso, 1951,
p. 194), and Los Muertos (Haury, 1945a, p. 147). These are all late sites
or phases coeval with or later than the estimated occupation of Hinkle Park
Cliff-Dwelling.
The notched shell fragment, described above (p. 142), appears to be
essentially similar to an object which the Cosgroves reported from the
Swarts Ruin and which they termed a "talisman" (Cosgrove, 1932, p. 66,
pi. 74,/). The object we have illustrated may be imagined to resemble a
lizard or a salamander. Pendants made from the umbo of the Glycymeris
shell are not too uncommon wherever shell ornaments are found. They
may have been made from broken shell bracelets. We have reported this
type of object from Cordova Cave (Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952,
p. 184), and Roberts (1931, p. 160, pi. 42) illustrates others from Kiatuth-
lanna.
The small red cylindrical object termed a "bead" has some similarity to
objects termed "medicine cylinders" by Morris (1919, p. 27, fig. 14) and
"nose plugs" by Roberts (1940, p. 129, pi. 48).
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CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
Fig. 73. Bone awls. Length ofj, 7.8 cm.
BONE AWLS
(Figure 73)
TYPE A
Description: Ulna type, head of bone intact, shaft worked to a point (fig.
73, a, b). Total 4.
Materials: Deer (Odocoileus) ulnas. Fox {Urocyon) ulna.
Dimensions: Length, 12.9, 9.7, 8.5, 16.7 cm.
TYPE B
Description: Head of bone unworked except by original splitting; other
end ground and polished to a sharp point (fig. 73, c, d). Total 3.
Materials: Deer {Odocoileus) metatarsal, antelope (Antilocapra) meta-
tarsal.
Dimensions: Length, 11.9, 10.2 (fragment), 15.0 cm.
TYPE G
Description: Head of bone removed, proximal end worked smooth and
rounded off"; worked to point at distal end (fig. 73, e,f). Total 5.
Dimensions: Length, 14.3, 14.2, 7.4, 8.4, 9.7 cm.
SPECIMENS OF STONE, BONE, AND CLAY 147
TYPE D
Description: Long bone shaft splinters, ground and polished to a sharp
point at one end (fig. 73, g-j). Total 11.
Dimensions: Length, 6.6-9.8 cm., average, 7.9 cm.; width, 0.7-1.7 cm.,
average, 1.2 cm.; thickness, 0.5-0.9 cm., average, 0.6 cm.
TYPE E
Description: Points, or tips of bone awls; all fragments. Total 10.
Dimensions: Length, 3.2-7.4 cm.; width, 0.6-1.4 cm.; thickness, 0.4-0.7
cm.
BONE FLAKERS
(Figure 74, b, g, i, k)
Description: Small oblong tools, generally rounded rectangular in cross
section with beveled blunted ends; surfaces scored diagonally near ends.
Total 4.
Dimensions: Length, 4.7, 4.6, 5.5, 5.6 cm.; width, 0.9, 1.0, 1.0, 1.4 cm.;
thickness, 0.8, 0.8, 0.9, 0.5 cm.
ANTLER FLAKERS
(Figure 75)
Description: Antler tines with beveled and scored tips. Total 6.
Materials: Deer (Odocoileus) antler.
Dimensions: Length, 8.7, 15.2, 14.0, 22.3 cm., remainder fragments.
NOTCHED RIB
(Figure 74, /)
Description: Small fragment of rib with edges beveled off from one surface
in broad, shallow notches. Total 1.
Dimensions: Length, 6.0 cm.; width, 1.6 cm.; thickness, 0.4 cm.
DICE
(Figure 74, c, d)
Description: Oblong section of bone worked smooth on one end and three
sides; fourth surface concave, rough, one end broken. Total 2.
Dimensions: Length, 2.8, 2.7 cm.; width, 1.1, 1.3 cm.; thickness, 0.9,
0.7 cm.
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CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
Fig. 74. Bone tubes {a, e,f, h), dice {c, d), flakers {b, g, i, k), dart bunt (j), notched
rib (/). Length of;, 4.4 cm.
BONE DART BUNT
(Figure 74,7)
Description: Head of bone, cut off at right angles to shaft, remainder of
shaft hollowed out to receive dart foreshaft. Total 1.
Materials: Deer (Odocoileus) tibia.
Dimensions: Length, 4.4 cm.; width, 3.5 cm.; thickness, 2.0 cm.
SPECIMENS OF STONE, BONE, AND CLAY 149
BONE TUBES
(Figure 74, a, e,f, h)
Description: Short hollow sections of long bone shafts cut and polished
smooth at the ends. Total 4.
Dimensions: Length, 4.7, 2.0, 4.2, 1.7 cm.; diameter, 1.3, 1.1, 0.7, 0.9 cm.
DISCUSSION
Most of the bone awls and other bone artifacts were made from long
bones which had been split. It has been assumed heretofore that these
bones were split for the sole purpose of making these tools. On the other
hand, there is some evidence that these awls, in many instances, are simply
the by-product of splitting the larger bones for their marrow. A side light
on this is the very large number of bone splinters that were found. Shaft
splinters exceed fragments that could be definitely identified in almost
every section of O Block Cave that was excavated; also most of the frag-
ments of the larger animals that could be identified had been split. This
seems to indicate that the Mogollon Indians split almost all the long bones
of the larger animals they killed, possibly for the marrow. The bones of the
small animals (rats, squirrels, and the like) were not split and were more
frequently found whole; but these would not contain enough marrow to
make splitting worth while. Another side light on the possibility that most
of the bone awls are the by-product of splitting bone for marrow is the
large number of splinter type awls. Splinter type awls and awl fragments
exceed all other types of awls; awls with the head of the bone intact are few
in number and constitute only a very small fraction of the total. This may
be a condition peculiar to the occupation of the caves, inasmuch as awls
made from bone splinters are more scarce from the open sites, although
those with the head of the bone intact are still few in number.
The bone awls found in Square A-3, level 4, and Square B-2, level 5,
O Block Cave, probably belonged to two sets, inasmuch as the component
awls in each of these sets came from a small area in each section.
Only two of the awls in the 1952 collections have side notches. Three of
the awls have fine, slender, shouldered points which diff"er sufficiently from
the average points to indicate a different use.
WORKED SHERDS
(Figure 76)
TYPE A
Description: Pottery disks with edges ground smooth. Total 2.
150 CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
Materials: Alma Plain, Reserve Black-on-White(?).
Dimensions: Diameter, 2.6, 9.0 cm.; thickness, 0.6, 0.6 cm.
Fig. 75. Antler flakers. Length of right specimen, 22.3 cm.
TYPE B
Description: Pottery disks with edges ground smooth, perforated through
center; "spindle whorls." Total 2.
Materials: Mimbres Black-on-White.
Dimensions: Diameter, 3.4, 6.1 cm.
TYPE C
Description: Wing-like figure, lozenge shape with projections at axis.
Total 1.
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SPECIMENS OF STONE, BONE, AND CLAY
151
Fig. 76. Worked sherds, human figurine, miniature ladle fragments. Length of
lower right specimen, 7.0 cm.
Materials: San Francisco Red.
Dimensions: Length, 3.9 cm.; width, 1.5 cm.; thickness, 0.6 cm.
TYPE D
Description: Large, concave, roughly oval in outline; edges ground
smooth; possibly scoops. Total 7.
Materials: Reserve Smudged, Alma Plain, Reserve Black-on-White.
Dimensions: Length, 7.3, 8.3 cm., remainder fragments (5.5-7.0 cm.);
width, 5.0, 4.4, 4.7, 5.7, 4.8, 3.4, 4.6 cm.; thickness, 0.6, 0.8, 0.8, 0.7, 0.5,
0.6, 0.8 cm.
152 CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
TYPE E
Description: Sherds with some edges ground smooth, other edges rough.
Total 11.
Materials: Reserve Smudged, Mimbres Bold Face Black-on -White, San
Francisco Red, Alma Plain.
Dimensions: Lengths, all fragments (2.4-5.2 cm.); widths, all fragments
(1.5-4.4 cm.); thickness, 0.5-0.7 cm., average, 0.6 cm.
FIGURINE
(Figure 76)
Description: Clay human figure with ovoid body, "coffee bean" eye
(one eye broken off), prominent clay ridge nose; arms, legs, neck, other
features not represented. Total 1.
Materials: Fired clay, grayish pink color.
Dimensions: Length, 4.6 cm.; width, 1.7 cm.; thickness, 1.1 cm.
ANIMAL EFFIGIES
(Figure 77)
Description: Crudely modeled, quadruped figures, peg-like legs, ears
pinched up, one with tail curled over back, one pebble smoothed, species
unidentifiable, portions of legs, tails, ears broken off; one with hole
through body. Total 9.
Materials: Brown to rosy gray fired and unfired clay.
Dimensions: Length, 3.2-6.0 cm., average, 4.0 cm.; width, 1.3-2.7 cm.,
average, 2.2 cm.; thickness, 1.3-2.1 cm., average, 1.7 cm.
POT COVERS
(Figure 78)
Description: Large thick disk of unfired or lightly fired clay; corn cob
impressions in lower surface; upper surface convex; pot(?) rim impression
along perimeter; upper surface of one specimen white. Total 2.
Materials: Sandy clay.
Dimensions: Diameter, 14.5, 13.0 cm.; thickness, 2.7, 4.5 cm.
MINIATURE LADLES
(Figure 76)
Description: Half of bowl of miniature ladle including base of handle.
Total 2.
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153
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Fig. 77. Animal effigies. Length of lower right specimen, 3.6 cm.
Materials: Brown and red fired clay.
Dimensions: Length (both fragments), 4.2 and 3.8 cm.
DISCUSSION
There was no additional evidence forthcoming from the 1952 collections
as to the use of the various shapes of worked sherds. They have been clas-
sified as scoops, spindle whorls, and counters in accordance with customary
practice. All types in the 1952 collection had a late distribution, none being
earlier than the Three Circle Phase. Most of the worked sherds came from
the Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling. It is not surprising that more did not come
from O Block and Y Canyon caves in view of the fact that so few were re-
covered from Tularosa and Cordova caves.
One sherd of unusual wing-like shape was recovered from Hinkle Park
Cliff-Dwelling (fig. 76). This object is similar to figures of carved shell
found at the Swarts Ruin and at the NAN Ranch Ruin reported by the
Cosgroves (Cosgrove, 1932, pi. 74, k, and pi. 76, c). Another similar object
made of red slate is figured by Kidder and Guernsey (1919, p. 127, fig. 50),
from the Marsh Pass region.
The human figurine bears a general resemblance to objects reported by
Haury from Los Muertos (1945a, fig. 69, b) and more superficially to a
figurine from Los Hornos (op. cit., fig. 118, p. 181). Both have "coffee
bean" eyes and the prominent clay ridge nose. The figurine in the 1952
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collections is the first to be reported from the later phases of the Pine Lawn
Valley sequence. However, the specimen from Turkey Foot Ridge, Pit
House L (San Francisco-through-Three Circle), also has "coffee bean"
eyes (Martin and Rinaldo, 1950a, p. 352, fig. 134).
Fig. 78. Pot cover from Room E, Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling. Diameter, 13.0 cm.
Although certain apparent injuries to these figurines from the Reserve
area suggest black magic, it seems doubtful whether any such significance
should be attached thereto. A consistent pattern is lacking and the injuries
are not as obviously intentional as those to the figurine which Morris illus-
trates from the Prayer Rock district, northeastern Arizona (Morris, 1951,
p. 33, fig. 24, b). The figurine from Tularosa Cave had a peg in the top of
its head, that from Turkey Foot Ridge a crack in the middle of the head
running down into the chest region, and that from O Block Cave a small
hole in the chest.
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Such details could probably be passed over were it not for a similar
pattern (whatever its significance might be) in the clay animal effigies.
The nine animal effigies from Hinkle Park Cliff- Dwelling add significantly
to the dozen specimens from the Reserve area and the fifteen figures from
Point of Pines (Wendorf, 1950, pp. 85-86). A remarkable characteristic of
these is that almost every specimen is broken to some extent — legs, tails,
heads, or ears are frequently missing. Another characteristic is a hole
pushed through while the clay is still damp, beginning just under the neck
and coming out just below the tail. This hole had been noted on one speci-
men from Tularosa Cave (Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, fig. 67, a),
one specimen from Three Pines Pueblo (Martin and Rinaldo, 1950b,
p. 474), and eight specimens from Arizona W:10:51 (Wendorf, 1950, p. 86);
it also characterizes the group of clay effigies from Starkweather Ruin
(Nesbitt, 1938, p. 100). One specimen from Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling has
a large hole passing from side to side through the middle of the body. The
identification of the species seems doubtful. They have been identified as
various kinds of animals — mountain sheep, deer, dogs, mountain lions,
bears, and porcupines — but the features are almost always too crudely
modeled or fragmentary to make identification certain. They possibly bear
a tenuous relationship to the effigy handles found on Tularosa Black-on-
White pitchers (Martin and Willis, 1940, pi. 81, figs. 6, 7).
Miniature ladles or their broken parts have been reported from the SU
site (Martin, 1943, p. 232), Turkey Foot Ridge (Martin and Rinaldo,
1950a, p. 352), and Tularosa Cave (Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952,
p. 196). In this area they do not occur as full-sized vessels in the Mogollon
pottery types, and they seem to have had a purpose other than use as toys.
Possibly they were used as spoons or for administering medicine to the sick.
Although fifteen were recovered from the Pine Lawn Phase pit-houses at
the SU site, no more than two have been recovered from each of the later
sites.
PIGMENTS
(Not Illustrated)
TYPE A
Description: Red lumps of pigment (hematite); 9 specimens smooth on
two or more surfaces, 2 irregular, unworked, smooth surfaces generally
faceted. Total 11.
Dimensions: Length, 1.8-6.5 cm., average, 3.6 cm.; width, 1.4-5.4 cm.,
average, 2.8 cm.; thickness, 0.6-3.1 cm., average, 1.4 cm.
SPECIMENS OF STONE, BONE, AND CLAY 157
TYPE B
Description: White lumps of pigment (limestone), un worked. Total 2.
Dimensions: Length, 4.0, 2.5 cm.; width, 2.3, 1.4 cm.; thickness, 0.6,
1.1 cm.
TYPE C
Description: Rough lumps of blue-green pigment or raw "turquoise";
actually malachite and azurite. Total 30.
Dimensions: Length, 0.9-3.4 cm., average, 1.7 cm.; width, 0.6-2.9 cm.,
average, 1.2 cm.; thickness, 0.4-2.8 cm., average, 0.9 cm.
CRYSTALS
(Not Illustrated)
Description: Sharp hexagonal quartz crystals, possibly drills. Total 6.
Dimensions: Length, 5.6, 2.6, 2.9, 3.4, 2.6, 4.0 cm.; width, 3.3, 1.3, 0.8,
0.1, 0.7, 2.0 cm.; thickness, 2.5, 1.2, 0.5, 0.8, 0.6, 1.9 cm.
DISCUSSION
A significant feature of the pigments is the number of lumps of hematite
with faceted surfaces. In view of the quantity of paint grinding stones with
paint on their surfaces it is suggested that the pigment was ground against
the stone directly rather than between a hand stone and the paint grinding
stone. Manos or rubbing stones with pigment on their grinding surfaces
have rarely been recovered in this area.
Although considerable malachite pigment was recovered, none was
found on any paint grinding stone from the 1952 collections. However, it
was found on a paint grinding stone from Tularosa Cave (Martin, Rinaldo,
and others, 1952, p. 138). These malachite lumps do not have the faceted
surfaces of the hematite lumps, possibly because this malachite is a harder
substance, less easily ground down.
SUMMARY
Although a sufficient number of artifacts were secured from the early
levels in O Block and Y Canyon caves to corroborate the discoveries of the
previous seasons concerning the types of artifacts used in Pre- Pottery and
Plain Ware horizons, the primary contribution of these collections is the
number of aspects which they add to our knowledge of the Reserve and
Tularosa phases. The character of the collections as a whole is colored by a
number of artifact types which do not have their counterparts in the earlier
158 CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
Cochise and Mogollon tradition, such as axes, arrow shaft tools, beveled
manos, and the slender, triangular projectile points. These types, when
taken together with specimens such as the human figurine and the wing-
like worked sherd, appear to foreshadow increasing culture contacts and
the approach of a culture climax.
V, Cordage, Sandals, and Textiles
By Elaine Bluhm
CORDAGE
Description: The cordage specimens that were found consist of:
Yams: Single elements produced by twisting two or more fibers.
Strands: Two or more yams twisted together.
Muhiple strand cordage: Two or more strands twisted together.
During manufacture, direction of twist shifts as elements are combined;
for example, S-twist yarns are combined in Z-strands, which are, in turn,
combined in S-twist multi-strand cords. S- or Z-twist is determined by
comparing the slant of the twist of the cord with the slant of the middle bar
of the letters S and Z (fig. 83).
Most cordage natural color, two bast fiber fragments dyed red.
One-, 2-, and 3-yam and 2- and 3-strand specimens vary from 0.5 to
5.5 mm. in diameter. Yams both S- and Z-twist, with S-twist predominate
in both hard and bast fibers. Single surface fiber yam (cotton) and yarn in
cotton textile Z-twist.
Material: The following types of fibers are used in the construction of the
cordage :
Hard fibers: Greatly thickened, elongated cells found in the leaves and
stems of many monocotyledonous plants; commercial examples of such
fibers are sisal, manila hemp, yucca.
Bast fibers: Elongated strengthening cells found in the phloem of plants.
Flax, hemp, jute, ramie, and Indian hemp or apocynum are examples.
Surface fibers: Single-celled fibers borne on the surface of plant parts; for
example, cotton fibers attached to seeds.
Discussion
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from the Three Circle and Reserve levels of O Block Cave (fig. 80). Two-
yam Z-twist cord (S-twist yam) is the most common type, as it seemed to
be in Tularosa Cave (Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, pp. 205-212,
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215-218) and other sites in the Hohokam (Haury, 1950, pp. 391-394) and
Anasazi areas (Bartlett, 1934, p. 45; Haury, 1945b, p. 48; Kidder and
Guernsey, 1919, p. 113).
In the Late Phase of Cordova Cave and the San Francisco and San
Francisco-through-Tularosa levels of Tularosa Cave, S-twist hard and
bast fiber yarn predominates over Z-twist, as it does in O Block Cave.
Z - twisf yarns
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Fig. 83. Drawings of cordage types.
Samples from the Pre-Pottery, Pine Lawn, and Georgetown levels of
O Block Cave were too small to provide an adequate check on the early
predominance of Z-twist bast fiber yam and later shift to S-twist bast fiber
yam in Tularosa Cave. Surface fiber yarns (cotton) are Z-twist in O Block
Cave and the textile fragment from Cosper Cliff'-Dwelling, as they are in
the Tularosa Cave cordage and textiles (Martin, Rinaldo, and others,
1952, fig. 75, p. 299).
FUR AND FEATHER CORD
Fur Cord
Description: Of the types identified in Tularosa and Cordova caves (Mar-
tin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, p. 218) the following were found:
Type A: Cords, or occasionally yarns, wrapped with strips of fur, pro-
ducing an S-twist fur cord.
Type B: Two yams, or less frequently cords, each wrapped with skin and
then twisted together to produce an S-twisted fur cord.
Type F: A cord wrapped with two strips of fur, forming an S-twist fur
cord.
164 CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
Material: Narrow strips of fur and Z-twist bast fiber yarn or 2-yarn
S-twist bast fiber cord.
Feather Cord
Description: Of the types identified in Tularosa and Cordova caves (Mar-
tin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, p. 218), the following was found:
Type A-Q: Contour feather quills wrapped around a piece of cord to
form S-twisted feather cord. Quills not split, but vanes broken down after
feathers had been wrapped around cord.
Material: Feather quills and 2-yarn Z-twist hard or bast fiber cord. In
one case the 2-yarn bast fiber cord was dyed red.
Discussion
The distribution of the 20 fur and feather cord specimens (fig. 80) found
in O Block Cave, Y Canyon Cave, and Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling is
such that no conclusion can be drawn about the relative popularity on
the basis of these sites. In this sample the quantities of fur and feather cord
are equal. More fur cord specimens were of Type A, and A-Q was the
only feather cord type. Both types were predominate in Tularosa and
Cordova caves (Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, fig. 74, pp. 211-212).
In Tularosa Cave, fur cord tends to be more important in the early
phases and feather cord more important later. This is also true in the
Anasazi area, where fur cord is more important in Basketmaker II and III
while feather cord is predominate in Pueblo II and III (Bartlett, 1934,
p. 46; Kidder and Guernsey, 1919, p. 174; Morris, 1919, p. 48). Several
types of fur cord were found in the Hohokam site of Ventana Cave, but
feather cord is rare (Haury, 1950, pp. 394-396).
KNOTS
Description: The following knots, tied in cords or more often in strips of
yucca fiber, were found:
Square or reef knot (Graumont, 1945, p. 28, fig. 88).
Granny knot (Graumont, 1945, p. 28, fig. 87).
Overhand or thumb knot (Graumont, 1945, p. 27, fig. 84).
Single half hitch (Graumont, 1945, p. 3, fig. 1).
Single bow (Haury, 1950, p. 397, fig. 94, e).
Discussion
Of 135 knots recovered (fig. 81), square knots were predominate in
O Block Cave, Y Canyon Cave, Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling, and Cos-
CORDAGE, SANDALS, AND TEXTILES 165
per Cliff-Dwelling, as they were in Tularosa and Cordova caves (Mar-
tin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, pp. 212-213, 219, fig. 76). As before, the
overhand is second in popularity, but a greater proportion of granny knots
was found in O Block Cave than in the sites reported before. This knot has
become more important, also, because of its use in the large net from that
cave (see p. 171).
The square knot appears to be the most important type in the Anasazi
sites (Bartlett, 1934, p. 45; Haury, 1934, p. 87) and was also found in
Ventana Cave (Haury, 1950, pp. 397-398).
FIBER COILS
Description: Narrow strips of fiber or slender twigs wound into coils. Ends
sometimes tied to keep coil from unwinding.
One coil of woody splint wound to tight oval, spiraling out from center,
like a watch spring. Additional fiber ties free end of splint to preceding
round of coil.
Material: Strips of yucca, woody splints, slender unpeeled twigs, 1-4
mm. wide.
Dimensions: Diameter, 1.3-5.6 cm.
Discussion
The 12 coils found in the Three Circle, Reserve, and Three Circle-
through-Tularosa levels of O Block Cave and Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling
resemble those from Tularosa Gave, where they occurred throughout the
occupation of the site (Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, pp. 221-223,
fig. 76). Coils of string were also found in Tularosa Cave, although they
do not occur here.
CARRYING-LOOP CHAIN
Description: Narrow strip of fiber tied with overhand knot in center; ends
tied with square knot, producing 2-loop chain.
Dimensions: Loop diameter, 6 cm.
Discussion
Chains of similar construction, but usually with more loops, were found
in the Pre-Pottery, Pine Lawn, and Georgetown levels of Tularosa Cave
(Martin, Rinaldo, and others, fig. 76, pp. 214, 216). The occurrence of one
specimen from Gosper Cliff-Dwelling extends the known temporal range of
the artifact to the Tularosa Phase.
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Similar chains were found in Pueblo III in the Anasazi area (Fewkes,
1909, p. 47, fig. 27, and 1911, p. 77; Haury, 1945b, p. 50, pi. 21; Morris,
1911, p. 180, pis. 52, 54, 55), where the loops occasionally had corn cobs or
herbs tied in them. Loop chains were also part of the tied-twined corn husk
lining of a cist in Dupont Cave (Nusbaum, Kidder, and Guernsey, 1922,
pi. 54). According to Fewkes (1911, p. 77) the Hopi have a similar 6-loop
chain for holding com cobs in ceremonies.
SANDALS
Two-Warp Wickerwork Sandals, Plain
(Figures 84, left; 85, left)
Description: Warps, knotted at heel in square knot, are brought down to
toe and knotted again when sole is completed. Weaving begins at heel,
weft passing back and forth over and under warp. Weft is wound around
knotted warps at heel before sole is started. Ends of weft elements, added
during course of weaving, are left on under side where they fray out and
provide cushioning for sole. Sandals are oval and symmetrical; lefts not
distinguishable from rights. Ends of warp fibers are knotted at toe and
brought up on top of sandal to form toe ties. Heel ties are missing on these
specimens (Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, pp. 259-262).
Material: Warps, wefts, and ties usually of yucca {Tucca baccata Torr.)
mashed somewhat before weaving. In Y Canyon specimen the weft ele-
ments are bunches of grass.
Dimensions: Length, 16.8 cm., incomplete; width, 8.1, 9.5 cm.
Four-Warp Wickerwork Sandals, Plain
(Figures 84, center; 85, center)
Description: Weft elements woven in plain over-one-under-one weave
across four warps. Warps anchored at heel by wrapping around wefts. A
complete specimen from Tularosa Cave indicates that the sandal is woven
from heel to toe and the surplus warps are folded back on top of the toe.
Fragment indicates that heel tie passes under outer warp on either side
of foot (Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, pp. 263-266).
Material: Warps, wefts, and ties of whole or strips of yucca leaves.
Dimensions: Length, fragment, width, 9.0 cm.
Plaited Sandals with Round Toes, Made of Wide Elements
(Figures 84, right; 85, right)
Description: Three or four leaves, bent at toe, form 6 or 8 elements,
plaited in an over-two-under-one or over-one-under-one pattern from toe
Fig. 84. Sandals: left to right, two-warp wickerwork, four-warp wickerwork, and
plaited. Length of right, 20.4 cm.
Fig. 85. Drawings of typical sandals:^ left to right, two-warp wickerwork, four-
warp wickerwork, and plaited.
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168 CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
to heel beyond desired sandal length. Surplus folds over heel, providing
cushion. Folded ends occasionally bound in place with narrow strip of
yucca. Sandals somewhat rounded at toe, lefts sometimes distinguishable
from rights when inner corner tends to be less rounded than outer.
Toe tie, a narrow strip of yucca inserted under one or two upper ele-
ments about 2.5 cm. back from toe and tied on top of second and third
toes.
Heel tie of yucca crosses sole, passing under an element on either side,
about 2.5 cm. from back; comes up over instep and ties to toe tie. A thin
strip of leaf connects heel ties across back of foot (Martin, Rinaldo, and
others, 1952, 267-272).
Material: Whole yucca leaves {Yucca baccata Torr.), usually not treated
before plaiting, but sometimes beaten or crushed; vary in width from 0.7
to 2.0 cm.
Dimensions: Length, 19.2-23.5 cm., average, 21.0 cm.; width, 5.7-10.5
cm., average, 8.9 cm. _ .
Plaited Sandal Fragments, Made of Wide Elements
Description: Too fragmentary to be included in above category.
Discussion
Altogether, 27 sandals were found in the four caves; two were of two-
warp wickerwork, one was of four-warp wickerwork, and 24 were plaited
of wide elements. Three sandals come from Y Canyon, eight from Cosper
Cliff-Dwelling, seven from Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling, and nine from O
Block Cave (fig. 82).
The two-warp wickerwork sandals are identical in construction with
those from Tularosa and Cordova caves (Martin, Rinaldo, and others,
1952, pp. 259-262), although the one from Y Canyon Cave introduced a
new material, as it was made of grass. This sandal type occurred in all
levels of Tularosa Cave from Pre-Pottery through the San Francisco-
through-Tularosa mixed levels, but it was more numerous in the earlier
levels. Specimens from Y Canyon and O Block caves do not contradict this
evidence.
Mogollon two-warp wickerwork sandals resemble the Hohokam two-
warp wickerwork sandals from Ventana Cave in appearance (Haury,
1950, pp. 432-434) but differ from .them in construction. Warps of the
Mogollon type are made of two leaves knotted at both heel and toe; in the
Hohokam type both warps are formed when one leaf is bent at the toe and
tied at the heel. The specimens from Ventana Cave may have been worn
CORDAGE, SANDALS, AND TEXTILES 169
as early as San Pedro times (Haury, 1950, p. 340), and they are the pre-
dominant sandal type at that site.
A few two-warp wickerwork sandals have been found in Pueblo III
Anasazi sites (Kidder and Guernsey, 1919, pp. 101-103). Warps in these
sandals are made of two leaves, knotted at both heel and toe, as in the
MogoUon type, but they are more rigid in appearance, and the wefts are
short elements, beginning in the center, passing under one warp and back
over it, and under the other, where they are cut and the ends frayed out.
The frayed sole is, therefore, much wider than the distance between the
two warps. In the Mogollon two-warp wickerwork sandal, the width of the
sole is close to the distance between the warps, and weft elements are woven
continuously back and forth across the warps.
The four-warp wickerwork sandal from the Pine Lawn-through-Rc-
serve level of Y Canyon Cave is typologically like those from Tularosa
Cave, and the occurrence of it here agrees with the evidence from the other
sites (Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, pp. 263-266, fig. 83).
Four-warp wickerwork sandals have been found in the Anasazi area in
Basketmaker II and III sites (Baldwin, 1938, pp. 465-485; Guernsey,
1931, p. 77, pi. 90; Kidder and Guernsey, 1919, p. 158, pi. 67) and Pueblo
III sites (Haury, 1945b, p. 42, pi. 17; Judd, 1931, pp. 63-64, pi. 41).
While there is a general similarity between these sandals and the Mogollon
specimens, usually the warps of the Anasazi type are fringed out at the
toes, rather than folded back over the foot.
Two- and four-warp wickerwork sandals from Texas are similar in
weaving technique to those of the Southwest but they usually have fishtail
heels (Cosgrove, 1947, pp. 82-87; Howard, 1930, pi. 34; Jackson, 1937,
p. 154; Smith, 1933, pp. 57-66). The manner in which one leaf is bent to
form two warps makes them more like those from Ventana Cave than
any others in the Southwest.
A total of 24 plaited sandals and fragments came from the four sites.
One came from the Pine Lawn-through-Reserve level of Y Canyon Cave,
eight from the Three Circle and Reserve levels and surface of O Block
Cave, seven from Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling, which is Transitional Re-
serve-Tularosa; and eight from Cosper Cliff-Dwelling, a Tularosa Phase
site. This was the only type present in the Reserve Phase levels of O Block
Cave and in the Hinkle Park and Cosper Cliff-Dwellings. This distribution
further substantiates the evidence from Tularosa Cave, where plaited
sandals were the predominate type in the San Francisco-through-Tularosa
mixed levels and the Reserve-through-Tularosa levels (Martin, Rinaldo
and others, 1952, fig. 83).
170 CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
With few exceptions, the plaited sandals from Mogollon sites (Cosgrove,
1947, pp. 89-93; Harringtoa, 1928, p. 9; Martin, Rinaldo, and others,
1952, pp. 266-276) are made of wide elements. In this respect they differ
from those reported from sites in the Anasazi area. Plaited sandals made of
narrow elements are important in Pueblo III sites in northeastern Arizona
(Fewkes, 1909, p. 47, and 1911, pp. 72-73, pi. 31; Haury, 1945b, p. 42,
pi. 17; Judd, 1931, pp. 63-64; Kidder and Guernsey, 1919, pp. 101-103;
Morris, 1911, pp. 179-180, and 1919, pp. 49-50; Pepper, 1920, pp. 93-94),
but are not the only type present at that time. Some of these Anasazi san-
dals have jog toes, a variation not reported from Mogollon sites. A letter
from Earl H. Morris indicates that plaited sandals have been found as
early as Basketmaker III, and that the earlier specimens are made of wider
elements.
Plaited sandals, made of wide elements, which closely resemble the
Mogollon type have been found in two southern Pueblo IV sites of Camp
Verde (Morris, 1929, pp. 85-86) and Canyon Creek (Haury, 1934, pp.
64-66).
PLAIN WEAVE CLOTH
Description: Wefts woven in plain, loose over-one-under-one weave across
warps; 9 warps and 6 wefts per centimeter, warps slightly more tightly
twisted than wefts. Fragment natural color, no selvage.
Material: Single-ply Z-twist cotton yarn.
Discussion
Only one prehistoric textile fragment was found during the 1952 season;
it came from Cosper Cliff-Dwelling. This fragment, made of cotton, falls
within the group of cotton textiles described from Tularosa Cave (Martin,
Rinaldo, and others, 1952, p. 299). Re-examination of several of those frag-
ments has led me to the conclusion that warps are generally somewhat
more tightly twisted than wefts and that Mogollon textiles tend to have a
greater number of warps than wefts per centimeter. This is substantiated
by cotton fragments from the caves of the Upper Gila area (Cosgrove,
1947, p. 69).
Plain weave cotton cloth is known throughout the Southwest. Specimens
have been reported from Ventana Cave in the Hohokam area (Haury,
1950, pp. 450-451), and they are known in the Anasazi area from Pueblo I
(Guernsey, 1931, p. 97), Pueblo II (Bartlett, 1934, pp. 46-47), and Pueblo
III sites (Fewkes, 1909, p. 45, and 1911, p. 76; Judd, 1931, p. 63; Kidder
and Guernsey, 1919, p. 115; Morris, 1911, p. 179, and 1919, p. 48;
Tschopik in Kluckhohn and Reiter, 1939, p. 96).
CORDAGE, SANDALS, AND TEXTILES
171
Fig. 86. Left: large rabbit-net,
tied with granny knots, from Three
Circle Phase level of O Block
Cave. Right: drawing of granny
knot. Width of bundle, 20 cm.
NETTING
(Figure 86)
Description: Large 9 cm. mesh formed by cords tied with granny knots.
Material: Three-strand Z-twist hard fiber cord; diameter, 3 mm.
Dimensions (of bundle, net too fragile to measure): Length, 50 cm.;
width, 20 cm.
Discussion
It is unfortunate that the net found in a Three Circle level of O Block
Cave was in such fragile condition that it could not be unfolded, and, there-
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CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
fore, its length and width could not be measured. However, judging from
the size of the bundle, the original net must have been several meters long.
The large mesh suggests that the specimen must have been used in hunting.
Although no net of this size was found in either Tularosa or Cordova
Cave (Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, p. 302), Cosgrove reports frag-
ments with large meshes (Cosgrove, 1947, pp. 72-73).
Fig. 87. Two-rod-and-bundle, bunched foundation basket fragment from O
Block Gave and drawing showing construction. Width of fragment, 10.6 cm.
The specimen perhaps resembled fragments found in a Basketmaker III
site (Guernsey, 1931, p. 79) and the large rabbit-net 240 feet long from
White Dog Cave (Guernsey and Kidder, 1921, pp. 77-79, pi. 31). How-
ever, the use of the granny knot in this net marks it as unusual in the South-
west.
CORDAGE, SANDALS, AND TEXTILES 173
BASKETRY
Two-Rod-and-Bundle, Bunched Foundation
(Figure 87)
Description: Sewing splints encircle two-rod-and-bundle, bunched foun-
dation of coil and part of bundle of coil below. Stitch slant is /. Stitches
non-interlocking, occasionally split. Two coils and 5 stitches per centi-
meter. Stitches almost completely cover foundation. Fragments too fragile
to determine splicing techniques.
Material: Rods are slender, woody shoots; sewing elements flexible wood
splints 1 to 2 mm. wide.
Discussion
Only one basket fragment was found in a Pine Lawn-through-Three
Circle level of O Block Cave. This fragment resembles those reported from
Tularosa and Cordova caves (Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, pp. 306-
308) except that this fragment is somewhat better constructed and has
more stitches per centimeter.
Two-rod-and-bundle, bunched foundation coiled basketry occurs in all
areas and all periods in the Southwest. In Tularosa Cave it was the pre-
dominate type in all levels from Pre-Pottery to San Francisco-through-
Tularosa (Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, fig. 85). Morris and Burgh
(1941, p. 12) have demonstrated its persistence throughout the Basket-
maker and Pueblo periods. In Ventana Cave this was not the predominate
type, but it may have been known as early as the San Pedro period (Haury,
1950, pp. 403-407).
TWILLED MATTING
(Figures 88, 89)
Description: Elements woven in over-three-under-three diagonal pattern.
Plaiting firm, little space between elements. Pattern usually in one diagonal
direction, but four fragments have 90 degree shift in direction (fig. 89) by
varying weave, elements continuing from one section into another. Tech-
nique does not resemble mended area, but rather variation in design.
At selvage, on three fragments, elements are turned parallel to edge of
mat, twisted once, and worked back into mat at 90 degree angle to direc-
tion from which they emerged. Twisting elements along edge produces
ridge or rolled edge effect on under side of mat.
Material: Dasylirion; strips 3 to 8 mm. wide.
Dimensions: Width, 94 cm. (one fragment with two edges, O Block
Cave).
174 CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
Discussion
The 33 fragments of twilled matting came from only two sites: three
from Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling, and the remainder from Three Circle,
Three Circle-through-Tularosa, and Reserve Phase levels and the surface
of O Block Cave (fig. 82). All of these fragments were woven in an over-
FiG. 88. Fragment of large twilled mat from O Block Cave. Length, 94 cm.
three-under-three pattern, although specimens woven in an over-two-
under-two pattern were found in Tularosa Cave (Martin, Rinaldo, and
others, 1952, p. 322). The more recently collected specimens have also
added information about selvage and patterning not available in the
Tularosa Cave specimens. In four fragments the weaving pattern shifted
direction to vary the design, and three fragments had selvage along the
edges. Cosgrove (1947, fig. 39) illustrates a selvage section of a cradle with
a change in pattern executed in the same fashion. The distribution of the
specimens in the Three Circle and later phases of cave occupation tends
to substantiate the evidence from Tularosa Cave that this type is more
important in the later part of the Mogollon sequence; in Tularosa Cave
most of the specimens came from the San Francisco-through-Tularosa
mixed levels (Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, fig. 86).
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176 CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
Most of the twilled mat fragments reported from the Anasazi area have
been found in Pueblo III (Haury, 1945b, p. 84; Judd, 1926, pp. 97-98;
Kidder and Guernsey, 1919, pp. 111-112; Morris, 1911, p. 179, and 1919,
pp. 53-54; and Tschopik in Kluckhohn and Reiter, 1939, p. 94) and
Pueblo IV sites (Haury, 1934, pp. 81-83, pi. LIV, b, d; Kidder, 1932,
p. 300), but some have been reported from Basketmaker II caves (Kidder
and Guernsey, 1919, pp. 170-171). In this area both over-two-under-two
and over-three-under-three weaves are known. In several specimens the
direction of the pattern of the body of the mat differs from that of the
border. This shift in direction is from a vertical twill to a diagonal, and
represents a 45 degree angle change in pattern direction (Haury, 1945b,
pi. 20, p. 48; Morris, 1911, p. 179, and 1919, pp. 53-54; Nordenskiold,
1893, pi. XLVIII, no. 4), while Mogollon specimens shift 90 degrees from
one diagonal pattern to another. The matting from the Canyon Creek site
has such a 90 degree shift in pattern direction, and one fragment has a
design of concentric squares produced in that fashion (Haury, 1934, pp.
81-83, pi. LIV, h, d).
Some small fragments of matting plaited in an over-two-under-two
weave came from levels of Ventana Cave dated at pre-1400 (Haury, 1950,
p. 402). That this technique was known in the Hokokam area is also indi-
cated by impressions of over-two-under-two matting from the Sacaton
Phase at Snaketown (Gladwin and others, 1937, p. 159).
PLAITING
Plaited Band, Wide
(Figure 90, right)
Description: Eight elements woven in an over-one-under-one diagonal
weave form a loose band; space between elements.
Material: Yucca strips, 5 to 7 mm. wide.
Dimensions: Length, incomplete; width, 3.8 cm.
Plaited Band, Narrow
(Figure 90, left)
Description: Twelve elements plaited in an over-four-under-two-over-
three pattern to form a narrow band. Weave is tight; little space between
elements.
Material: Strips of fiber 1 mm. wide.
Dimensions: Length, incomplete; width, 1.3 cm.
CORDAGE, SANDALS, AND TEXTILES 177
Flat Braid
Description: Three or four elements plaited in an over-one-under-one flat
braid. Cord in one braid dyed red.
Material: Strips of yucca (4-element braid) or 2-yarn Z-twist bast fiber
cord (3-element braid).
Dimensions: Width, 1.2 cm. (4-element braid), 0.2, 0.5 cm. (3-element
braids).
Fig. 90. Fragments of wide and narrow plaited bands. Width of left specimen,
1.3 cm.
Discussion
The two braided bands were found in Hinkle Park Cliff"-Dwelling. The
wider one may represent part of a burden strap, but the smaller is too
fragile to have served such a purpose.
Cosgrove reports several narrow braided bands from the Upper Gila
area (Cosgrove, 1947, p. 74), some of cord and some of yucca, but all nar-
rower than the wider of the two described above.
Braided yucca burden straps have also been reported from Pueblo III
and Basketmaker II sites in northeastern Arizona (Kidder and Guernsey,
1919, pp. 114, 172).
A small percentage of cordage specimens in Tularosa Cave were narrow
3- and 4-element braids of cord or yucca fiber (Martin, Rinaldo, and
others, 1952, p. 219, fig. 76). Such braids also occur in Anasazi (Kidder
and Guernsey, 1919, p. 114; Haury, 1934, p. 83, and 1945b, p. 49) and
Hohokam (Haury, 1950, pp. 393-394) sites.
178 CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
(Figures 80-82)
We recovered from the two caves and two cliff-dwellings a total of 121
pieces of cordage, including hard, bast, and surface fiber cords and fur and
feather cord; 135 knots tied with both cord and strips of yucca; and 81
artifacts of cord or fiber, including textiles, basketry, matting, and sandals.
Most of these specimens came from Three Circle, Reserve, Transitional
Reserve-Tularosa, and Tularosa Phase levels in the sites, and therefore add
to our knowledge of the period least adequately represented in Tularosa
and Cordova caves (Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952).
Most of the cordage is 2-yarn Z-twisted (S-twisted yarns), hard or bast
fiber, as is most of the cordage described from other sites in the Southwest.
Very little fur and feather cordage was recovered. Another Southwest-
wide trait represented here is the predominance of the square knot over
other types.
The majority of sandals were plaited of wide fiber. Because this was the
only type found in Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling and Cosper Cliff"-Dwelling
— the Transitional Reserve-Tularosa and Tularosa Phase sites — there is
further evidence that this is the typical indigenous sandal type in the later
phases of the known Mogollon sequence. This conclusion was suggested by
the increase in popularity of plaited sandals of wide elements in the San
Francisco-through-Tularosa levels of Tularosa Cave. None of the plaited
sandals of narrow elements, native to the Anasazi area, were recovered this
season.
The net, tied with granny knots, has the largest mesh of any specimen
yet recovered by the Chicago Natural History Museum expeditions, al-
though fragments of equally large meshes were found by Cosgrove. While
this specimen cannot be unfolded, it appears to have been similar to the
rabbit net reported from White Dog Cave in northeastern Arizona. The
use of the granny knot, however, marks it as unusual.
The single piece of cotton cloth and the one example of two-rod-and-
bundle, bunched foundation basketry are representative of the post-San
Francisco phases of the Mogollon sequence, but they were also common at
that time in other parts of the Southwest.
More twilled matting was found during 1952 than had been encoun-
tered before. All the specimens came from Three Circle Phase or later
levels of the sites. Twilled matting appears to be more popular, therefore,
in the later part of the Mogollon occupation of the Reserve area than
before. It is also more popular in Pueblo III times in the Anasazi area,
although a few specimens come from earlier sites or levels in both regions.
CORDAGE, SANDALS, AND TEXTILES 179
Cordage, sandals, and textiles found in O Block Cave, Y Canyon Cave,
and Hinkle Park and Cosper Cliff-Dwellings do not contradict the conclu-
sions based on specimens from Tularosa and Cordova caves, but merely
extend our knowledge of the later phases of the MogoUon sequence.
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VL Wooden Artifacts
By James Allison Brown
ATLATLS AND ATLATL EQUIPMENT
Atlatl Fragment
(Figure 92, a)
Description: Distal end fragment, smoothed piece of wood, plano-convex
cross section, with channel and spur on flat side (female type).
Dimensions: Length, 3.1 cm.; width, 2.4 cm.; thickness, 2.8 cm.; spur
length, 0.4 cm.; spur width, 0.5 cm.; channel width, ca. 1.2 cm.; channel
depth, 0.3 cm.; distance from spur to distal end, 3.9 cm.
Atlatl Dart Foreshafts
(Figure 92, c)
SLOTTED FORESHAFTS
Description: Short section of straight, peeled, and smoothed stick, with
spiral striations on tapered proximal end. Distal end is slotted and there are
traces of sinew binding. Round cross section, no decoration.
Dimensions: Length, 9.3 cm.; diameter, 0.9 cm.; slot depth, 0.7 cm.; slot
width, 0.35 cm.
PROXIMAL END FRAGMENT?
Description: Broken, smooth, round stick, one end tapered, other end
splintered.
Dimensions: Length, 13.1 cm.; diameter, 1.0 cm.
Discussion
The atlatl fragment from a Pine Lawn level in O Block Cave falls within
the general type of Southwestern atlatls, with a shallow channel and a
short spur which fits into a socket in the proximal end of the dart main-
shaft. This specimen is too fragmentary to be placed in any of the subtypes
defined by Grange for the area (Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, p.
337), but possibly it represents type 4: "Rectangular distal end outline.
Plano-convex distal end-spur cross section. Long channel." A similar speci-
181
Fig. 92. Atlatl fragment, a; wooden cylinder, b; atlatl dart foreshaft, slotted, c;
charred, shouldered, pointed stick, d; notched stick, e; spatula, /; toggle, g; burred
stick, h; cigar-shaped object, i. Length of b, 6.9 cm.
182
Fig. 93. Functional bows, a, c, e-i; ceremonial bow, flat cross section, b;
ceremonial bow, round cross section, d; painted red, c, d, h; painted black, i. Length
of ^, 14.8 cm.
183
184
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men was found in Tularosa Cave among other atlatl fragments with blunt-
pointed distal end outline fragments (op. cit., pp. 336-339, 373-376).
Southwestern atlatl darts consist of mainshafts and foreshafts. The main-
shafts, usually of cane, have concave sockets at the proximal end into which
I
Fig. 94. Digging stick, pointed, a; digging stick, flat blade, b; ceremonial bow, c.
Length of i, 107.0 cm.
the spurs fit; the tapered wooden foreshafts fit into the distal ends, which
are hollow. Only foreshafts were identified in O Block Cave.
Atlatl equipment occurs in the Pine Lawn and Three Circle levels of
O Block Cave, but mostly before the San Francisco Phase, a.d. 700.
In Tularosa and Cordova caves, the atlatl is the predominate weapon
before a.d. 700 — the end of the Georgetown Phase. In the Anasazi area,
this weapon is found in Basketmaker II and III sites (Guernsey, 1931, pp.
WOODEN ARTIFACTS 185
71-72; Guernsey and Kidder, 1921, pp. 80-81; Kidder and Guernsey,
1919, p. 178; Mason, 1928, pp. 302-310; Pepper, 1902b, pp. Ill, 113,
118).
BOWS AND ARROWS
Bow Fragments, Functional
(Figure 93, a, c, e-i)
Description: Smoothed, broken, stout sticks of hard wood, curved,
tapered towards ends; plano-convex, rounded plano-convex, rounded tri-
angular, or elHptical in cross section; flatter side is convex side of bow.
End fragments usually notched; one also had cord wrapped around bow at
notch.
Decoration present on many; solid red, solid black, solid white (?), black
bands, black on one side, red with darker red on back, or red on one side.
Dimensions: Length, 5.1-31.5 cm.; width (at ends), 0.5-2.2 cm.; thick-
ness (at ends), 0.6-1.9 cm. (all fragments).
Ceremonial Bow
(Figure 94, c)
Description: Curved, smoothed stick, tapered toward ends, round in
cross section.
No decoration.
Dimensions: Length, 82.0 cm.; diameter, 0.7-1.6 cm.
Bow Fragments, Ceremonial
(Figure 93, b, d)
Description: Curved, smoothed, broken sticks, tapering toward ends,
usually round in cross section although two are flat (see fig. 93, b). One
flat specimen has notch at end.
Decoration present on many; solid red, solid black, or black bands.
Dimensions: Length, 4.3-40.0 cm.; diameter, 1.0-1.8 cm.
Bow Fragments, Miniature
Description: Curved, smoothed, broken sticks, some with tapered ends.
Fragments are smaller than those described above, and therefore are con-
sidered miniature.
Decoration solid red.
Dimensions: Length, 12.0-32.8 cm.; diameter, 0.3-0.8 cm.
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CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
Arrow Mainshafts
(Figure 95, a, d, g-l)
Description: Straight, square cut, unsmoothed reeds, hollowed at distal
end for foreshaft tang, and notched at the proximal end, where wooden
Fig. 95. Arrow mainshafts, a, d, g-l; arrow fragments, parts of mainshafts
with foreshafts inserted, b, c, e,f. Painted with black, green, and red bands, g; painted
with green and red bands, j; painted with black bands, k; decorated with black wavy
lines parallel to mainshaft, i. Length oi d, 12.7 cm.
plug of appropriate size is inserted to prevent splitting. Nocks are either
V-shaped or U-shaped. Usually there is sinew binding back of nock and
farther up shaft to attach feathers and at distal end where foreshaft is
joined. Either three or four feathers attached back of notch at varying
distances, sometimes incorporating binding just back of notch which
served to keep wooden plug in place; plug seldom force-fitted (Cosgrove,
WOODEN ARTIFACTS 187
1947, pp. 21-22). Feathers trimmed in width and length, parallel to the
shaft.
Decoration usually paint at proximal end: red bands, red and black
bands, red, green, and black bands, or black wavy lines parallel to shaft.
Paint sometimes under feathers or under sinew.
Dimensions: Diameter, 0.3-1.1 cm.; distance of feathers from proximal
end of shaft, 0.3-2.6 cm.; distance between feather bindings, 0.6-7.7 cm.;
over-all feather length, 8.5-11.9 cm.
Arrow Foreshafts
(Figure 96)
Description: Straight, slender, peeled sticks with tapered or blunt (bro-
ken?) or in one case perhaps slotted distal end. Proximal tang tapered or
shouldered, often with traces of pitch used to fasten tang in mainshaft and
indications of sinew binding on shoulders.
Decoration usually paint: solid red most common, red with black end,
only black end. One foreshaft is carved with square cross section and barbs
along the four corners (fig. 96,/).
Dimensions (complete specimens): Length, 17.6, 16.6, 32.0, 34.^, 23.2,
24.2, 22.4 cm.; diameter, 0.7, 0.8, 0.7, 0.7, 0.6, 0.6, 0.8 cm.
Arrow Fragments
(Figure 95, b, c, ej)
Description: Broken fragments of cane mainshafts with broken fragments
of wooden foreshafts inserted in them.
Discussion
Bows dating from Pine Lawn through Reserve-Tularosa were found in
O Block Cave and Hinkle Park Cliff"-Dwelling. In Grange's analysis of
bows (Martin, Rinaldo, and others, pp. 339-340, 347-350) the differentia-
tion between functional, ceremonial, and miniature bows was based on
length: functional bows were more than 87 cm. long, ceremonial bows
35 to 87 cm. long, miniature bows less than 35 cm. long. For his purposes
such definitions proved workable; however, in the present caves, with only
one exception, only fragments were available. From these fragments it
seems that bows not round in cross section, made of hard wood, stout, and
sometimes notched for bowstrings, may be termed functional bows. This
class is differentiated from another group which is round in cross section
(with the possible exception of the flat fragments noted above), of soft
CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
wood, and rather delicate. In this latter group, ceremonial and miniature
bows are divided on the basis of size of diameter. In all classes painted
decoration is found. Employing the criteria used here. Grange's specimens
would still fit into the same categories.
b
Fig. 96. Shouldered arrow foreshafts, a, b, e-g; tapered arrow foreshafts, c, d;
painted red, e, c; painted red and black, d; carved,/. Length of ^, 11.7 cm.
A few bows have been reported from other sites. From the Upper Gila
area Cosgrove (1947, pp. 61, 130-131) describes functional bows that are
round, plano-convex, or plano-convex with round grip, all ranging from
36 to 56 inches in length. Other Mogollon specimens were found by Fulton
(1941, pp. 19-20) and Hough (1907, p. 24, and 1914, pp. 99-100). Minia-
ture bows were found in bundles with ceremonial arrows, which indicates
their ceremonial nature, by Grange (Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952,
p. 414, fig. 152) and Cosgrove (1947, pp. 130-131).
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I In the Anasazi area, functional, ceremonial, and miniature bows have
been found in Pueblo I, III, and IV sites (Guernsey, 1931, pp. 99, 107;
Haury, 1934, pp. 106, 108; Kidder, 1932, p. 294). Haury (1934, p. 106)
suggests that miniature bows may have been used for fire-making or
drilling.
Compound arrows are found in Pine Lawn through Transitional Re-
serve-Tularosa levels of O Block Cave and Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling.
Similar arrows from the Mogollon area were reported by Grange (Martin,
Rinaldo, and others, 1952, pp. 340-343, 384-389) and Cosgrove (1947,
pp. 62-65) although more complicated variations in painted decoration
were found in the Upper Gila area than in the Reserve area. In O Block
Cave and Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling, U-shaped nocks predominate over
V-shaped nocks from Pine Lawn to Transitional Reserve-Tularosa.
In the Anasazi area, a few arrows have been found in a Basketmaker II
site in Canyon del Muerto (Morris, 1939, p. 19) and Obelisk Cave, a Modi-
fied Basketmaker site (Morris, 1936, p. 36). More, however, occur in
Pueblo II, III, and IV sites (Bartlett, 1934, pp. 37-38; Haury, 1934, pp.
106-107; Morris, 1919, pp. 59-60; Judd, 1931, p. 58; Kidder and Guern-
sey, 1919, pp. 122-123; Guernsey, 1931, p. 107; Kidder, 1932, pp. 290-
291 ; Morris, 1911, p. 178). Simple band decoration was found in that area.
In Ventana Cave, arrow fragments may be as early as the San Pedro
Phase (Haury, 1950, pp. 418-420), and others may be assigned to Desert
Hohokam. Classic Phase arrows have also been recovered (Haury, 1945a,
pp. 200-201).
On the basis of the evidence of the suggested introduction of the bow and
arrow in the Hohokam area about the time of the shift from San Pedro to
Hohokam (a.d. 1) (Haury, 1950, p. 420) and the early Pine Lawn and Pre-
Pottery fragments from Tularosa Cave, Grange (Martin, Rinaldo, and
others, 1952, p. 341) suggested that the bow and arrow might have had a
southern origin. The Pine Lawn Phase bow and arrow fragments reported
here from O Block Cave support that hypothesis.
DIGGING STICKS
(Figure 94, a, b)
Digging Sticks, Flat Blade
Description: Long, stout stick, peeled, polished, and fire-hardened. Prox-
imal end smooth and rounded. Distal end (blade) flattened and pointed
by carving. Blade worn from use.
Dimensions: Length, 107.0 cm.; diameter, 3.0 cm.
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Digging Sticks, Pointed
Description: Long, stout stick, peeled, polished, and fire-hardened. Proxi-
mal end rounded and charred. Distal end shaped toward point but broken.
Dimensions: Length, 75.8 cm.; diameter, 2.2 cm.
Digging Stick (?), Fragment
Description: Fragment of stout stick, peeled, polished, and fire-hard-
ened(?). Rounded plano-convex in cross section. One end worked to partial
point, other end broken.
Dimensions: Length, 4.1 cm.; width, 2.0 cm.; thickness, 1.3 cm.
Discussion
Both flat blade and pointed digging sticks were found in Tularosa Cave
(Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, pp. 389-392), where they occur from
Pre-Pottery through the San Francisco- through-Tularosa levels. Cosgrove
also found both types in the Upper Gila area (Cosgrove, 1947, pp. 148-
149).
In the Anasazi area, both types of digging sticks are known. In Basket-
maker II sites (Guernsey and Kidder, 1921, pp. 89-90; Nusbaum, Kidder,
and Guernsey, 1922, pp. 113-115), both types are found, but the flat
blades are more common in Pueblo II (Bartlett, 1934, pp. 36-37), Pueblo
III (Fewkes, 1909, p. 44, and 1911, p. 73; Haury, 1945b, p. 50; Judd,
1926, pi. 82, and 1931, p. 56, pi. 34; Kidder and Guernsey, 1919, pp. 119-
120; Morris, 1911, pp. 177-178), and Pueblo IV (Haury, 1934, p. 104).
One sword-shaped blade was found at Pecos (Kidder, 1932, p. 290).
It seems that in the Hohokam the sword-shaped blade type is found in
the Classic Period (Fewkes, 1912, p. 146), and the pointed type occurs in
the Papago Period of Ventana Cave (Haury, 1950, p. 415).
Mogollon digging sticks usually have plain handles, although Cosgrove
reports one with a crook handle (Cosgrove, 1947, pp. 148-149). Knob and
crook handles apparently are more common among Anasazi specimens
(Bartlett, 1934, pp. 36-37; Fewkes, 1909, p. 44; Haury, 1945b, p. 50;
Kidder and Guernsey, 1919, pp. 119-120; Nusbaum, Kidder and Guern-
sey, 1922, pp. 113-115).
BARK AND WOOD TROWELS
(Figure 97, b)
Description: Roughly rectangular sections of wood and bark, concavo-
convex in cross section, with one worn, slanting end.
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Material: Pine bark (Pinus ponderosa).
Dimensions: Length, 13.6, 21.3, 17.8, 15.3, 5.6 cm.; width, 7.3, 13.1, 7.9,
5.0, 4.2 cm.; thickness, 1.8, 1.3, 1.1, 1.0, 1.3 cm.
Fig. 97. Notched bark hoe, a; bark trowel, b; bark hoe with hole for hafting, c;
notched wooden hoe with bark attached, d. Length of b, 17.8 cm.
BARK AND WOOD HOES
(Figure 97, a, c, d)
Description: Roughly rectangular sections of wood, pine bark, or wood
with bark attached, concavo-convex in cross section. One end notched or
with hole near end, opposite end worn. The largest specimen, of wood with
outer bark attached, has yellow ochre on the reverse side.
Materials: Pine bark {Pinus ponderosa?).
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Dimensions: Length, 11.6, 36.8, 22.7, 23.0 cm.; width, 8.5, 20.0, 11.9,
10.8 cm.; thickness, 2.2, 4.4, 2.6, 2.1 cm.; diameter of hole (of fourth speci-
men), 0.9 cm.
DISCUSSION
The occurrence of bark and wood trowels in a Three Circle level of O
Block Cave and in the Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling extends the known tem-
poral distribution of this tool in the Mogollon area. In Tularosa Cave,
they were reported from the Pre-Pottery through the San Francisco levels
(Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, pp. 344, 392-394).
In the Anasazi area bark trowels are considered a typical Basketmaker
trait (Guernsey, 1931, pp. 108, 183-184; Guernsey and Kidder, 1921, pp.
90-91; Haury, 1945b, p. 51; Kidder and Guernsey, 1919, p. 187; Nus-
baum, Kidder, and Guernsey, 1922, pp. 115-117).
Hoes or trowels with notches or holes, presumably for hafting, are not
reported from other sites.
FIRE DRILL HEARTHS
Cylindrical Fire Drill Hearths
(Figure 98, b, e)
Description: Cut, peeled sticks, round in cross section. Two have rec-
tangular notches cut half way through stick; bottoms of notches are
charred. Charred hemispherical socket has been worn in stick off-center,
so there is a slot in the side of the socket.
Dimensions: Length, 2.9, 19.8, 5.0 cm.; diameter, 1.0, 1.5, 1.3 cm.; depth
of depressions, 0.4, 0.8, 0.7 cm.
Piano-Convex Fire Drill Hearths
(Figure 98, c)
Description: Cut, peeled stick, one face smoothed to produce plano-con-
vex cross section. On plane face, one charred hemispherical socket has
been worn off-center, so there is a slot in the side of the socket.
Dimensions: Length, 13.6 cm.; width, 1.9 cm.; thickness, 1.6 cm.
Triangular Fire Drill Hearth (?)
Description: Split board, wedge-shaped in cross section, with charred
socket worn on side of plane face. Board broken across sockets at ends.
Dimensions: Length, 7.4 cm.; width, 1.6 cm.; thickness, 0.6 cm.
WOODEN ARTIFACTS
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FIRE DRILLS
(Figure 98, d, e)
Description: Smoothed, peeled cylindrical sticks, with one end rounded
and charred. One drill was also used as hearth (see above).
Dimensions: Length, 30.1, 19.8 cm.; diameter, 1.4, 1.5 cm.
Fig. 98. Drilled piece of wood, a; cylindrical fire drill hearth, b; plano-convex
fire drill hearth, c; fire drill, d; fire drill also used as hearth, e. Length off, 13.6 cm.
DISCUSSION
In Tularosa Cave there is a shift from plano-convex to cylindrical fire
drill hearths in the San Francisco Phase, but this is not borne out by
Cordova or O Block caves (Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, pp. 345-
346, 394-397). Both types are also found in the Upper Gila caves (Cos-
grove, 1947, pp. 146-148) and in Winchester Cave (Fulton, 1941, p. 33).
194 CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
Both plano-convex and cylindrical hearths have been reported from
Anasazi sites (Haury, 1934, p. 104; Kidder and Guernsey, 1919, pp. 120-
121), but Haury says that "Anasazi hearths appear to have been in round
sticks as a rule" (Haury, 1950, p. 420). Hohokam hearths appear to be
plano-convex in cross section (op. cit., pp. 414-415).
Simple fire drills also came from the same sites.
SPATULAS
(Figure 92,/)
Description: Smoothed split sticks bi-convex in cross section, with
smoothed edges and rounded ends. One had tapering end which may be a
handle.
Dimensions: Length, 15.4, 17.2, 17.1, 22.3 cm.; width, 2.2, 2.2, 1.5, 3.8
cm.; thickness, 0.9, 0.8, 0.6, 1.1 cm.
Discussion
The spatulas from the Pine Lawn and Reserve levels of O Block Cave
and Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling resemble those reported from the George-
town level of Tularosa Cave and the Late levels of Cordova Cave (Martin,
Rinaldo, and others, 1952, pp. 408, 410). Cosgrove (1947, p. 146) sug-
gested that those found in the Hueco area might have been used in weav-
ing.
One similar specimen came from Ventana Cave (Haury, 1950, p. 416).
SPLIT-STICK TONGS
(Figure 99, i)
Description: Split, peeled stick bent into U-shape with ends parallel;
painted with black bands.
Dimensions: Length, 21.6 cm.; width, 3.0 cm.; thickness, 1.4 cm.
Discussion
These tongs are so named because of their resemblance to modern sugar
tongs; their function is not known. They appear to be a late trait in the
Reserve area, as they occur in the Reserve Phase of O Block Cave, the San
Francisco Phase in Tularosa Cave, and the Late level of Cordova Cave
(Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, p. 411). Fire tongs made of two sticks
bound together at one end with charred tips on the open ends have been
reported from Ventana Cave (Haury, 1950, p. 415, pi. 34, c).
WOODEN ARTIFACTS 195
TOGGLES (?)
(Figure 92, g)
Description: Sticks with cut or broken ends, usually unpeeled, with cord
twisted around once and tied to center.
Dimensions: Length, 20.8, 9.2 cm.; diameter, 0.6, 1.4 cm.
Discussion
The two toggles from the Reserve Phase in O Block Cave are similar to
those found in Pine Lawn, Georgetown, and San Francisco levels of
Tularosa Cave (Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, pp. 406-408), and
suggest their presence throughout the Mogollon sequence.
BURRED STICKS (FEATHER CARDERS?)
(Figure 92, h)
Description: Short sections of sticks, bark removed in one specimen,
frayed at one end, cut fairly square at the other end.
Dimensions: Length, 6.5, 10.2, 7.3, 13.8 cm.; diameter, 2.0, 1.5, 2.6,
1.6 cm.
Discussion
Similar specimens have been found in Tularosa Cave (Martin, Rinaldo,
and others, 1952, pp. 346-347, 406, fig. 149), in the Upper Gila area (Cos-
grove, 1947, fig. 137,j), and in Winchester Cave (Fulton, 1941, p. 34) in
the Mogollon area. The use of these specimens as feather carders is sug-
gested by the fact that some from Tularosa Cave and one from Hinkle
Park Cliff-Dwelling have bits of down caught in the burr.
Similar specimens have been reported from Ventana Cave in the
Hohokam area (Haury, 1950, pp. 417-418, pi. 35).
CHARRED, SHOULDERED, POINTED STICKS
(Figure 92, d)
Description: Short, pithy stick whose surfaces are carved and smoothed;
point tapers from shoulder to rounded, charred end.
Dimensions: Length, 12.4, 11.9 cm.; width, 2.3, 1.6 cm.; thickness, 1.1,
1.3 cm.
Discussion
The purpose of these charred, shouldered, pointed sticks which have
been found in Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling and also in Tularosa Cave (Mar-
tin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, pp. 445-446) is not known. However, on
196 CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
the basis of present knowledge they occur from Georgetown through
Transitional Reserve-Tularosa phases.
WOODEN AWL
(Figure 99, g)
Description: Peeled, split, smoothed stick, worked to slender point at one
end, other end rounded.
Dimensions: Length, 10.1 cm.; width, 0.7 cm.; thickness, 0.4 cm.
Discussion
Wooden awls occur sporadically in the Mogollon area. One is reported
here from Gosper GlifT-Dwelling and another was found in a Pine Lawn
level of Tularosa Gave (Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, p. 401). A few
were located in the Hueco and Upper Gila areas (Gosgrove, 1947, p. 146).
In the other areas of the Southwest, the occurrence of wooden awls also
has been noted. They were found in Basketmaker (Guernsey and Kidder,
1921, p. 92) and Pueblo III (Kidder and Guernsey, 1919, p. 120) sites in
the Anasazi area. One is noted from a Papago level of Ventana Gave
(Haury, 1950, p. 416).
YUCCA LEAF SPINE NEEDLE
(Figure 99,/)
Description: Sharp, tapering spine of yucca leaf with fibers twisted to
form cord protruding from larger end.
Dimensions: Length, 7.5 cm.; width, 0.7 cm.; thickness, 0.4 cm.
Discussion
The one needle from the Reserve Phase in O Block Gave is like those
from the Plain Ware and Late levels of Gordova Cave (Martin, Rinaldo,
and others, 1952, p. 408).
Similar specimens came from a Pueblo IV site (Haury, 1934, pi. LV, b)
and Ventana Gave (Haury, 1950, p. 426).
WOODEN CYLINDERS
(Figure 92, b)
Description: Short lengths of straight sticks, peeled and smoothed, with
ends cut square and then slightly rounded.
Dimensions: Length, 6.9, 12.6 cm.; diameter, 0.9, 2.0 cm.
Fig. 99. Reed cigarettes, septum not pierced, a, b; reed cigarettes, septum pierced,
c, d; cane tube painted red, e; yucca leaf spine needle,/; wooden awl, g; wooden die,
h; split-stick tongs, i. Length of h, 7.0 cm.
197
198 CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
Discussion
Wooden cylinders from O Block Cave and Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling
are a simple variant of the many styles of wooden cylinders found by others
throughout the Southwest. In the Mogollon area they occurred from Pre-
Pottery through San Francisco- through-Tularosa levels in Tularosa Cave
(Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, pp. 357, 434, fig. 131). Cosgrove also
found them in the Upper Gila and Hueco areas (Cosgrove, 1947, p. 152).
They have also been described by various other authors. They occur in
the Anasazi area in both Basketmaker (Kidder and Guernsey, 1919, p.
186) and Pueblo III sites (op. cit., p. 123; Fewkes, 1909, p. 44; Morris,
1919, p. 45; Nordenskiold, 1893, pi. 49; Pepper, 1920, p. 108). Three were
found in Ventana Cave, one used as a nose plug in a burial (Haury, 1950,
p. 421).
The use of these specimens is unknown. They have been described as
ends of carrying straps and as gaming pieces. The one from Ventana Cave
has been used as a nose plug, but many are too large for that purpose.
PAINTED STICKS
Painted Sticks, Peeled
(Figure 100, a-o)
Description: Straight, slender, peeled sticks, broken or cut, decorated
with paint in the following ways:
Single color: Red, green, blue, or black over entire length of stick.
Banded: Sticks painted with alternating bands (0.3 to 7.0 cm. in width)
in the following color combinations: red and green; red and black; red,
unpainted, and green, with black rings separating colors; green, un-
painted, and black; red, unpainted, and black; blue, unpainted, and
green; blue and unpainted; red, black, and green; red and unpainted;
green and black; black and unpainted.
Half and half: Stick divided in two parts: (1) one half banded, and one
half solid color: red with black and unpainted bands, red with black and
green bands, green with black and red bands, red with black and red
bands, red with red and unpainted bands; (2) two halves painted different
solid colors: red and green, red and black, red and unpainted with black
ring separating colors, green and black, blue and white, green and un-
painted with black ring dividing colors, green and blue with black ring
dividing colors, black and unpainted.
Dimensions: Length, 2.5-43.8 cm., average 10.0 cm.; diameter, 0.3-1.3
cm., average 0.6 cm.
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Fig. 100. Peeled painted sticks, a-o: solid red, a, J; half unpainted, half blue, b;
half red, half black and unpainted bands, c, h; black and unpainted bands, d; half
black, half black and unpainted bands, e; half black, half green, g; solid green, i;
solid red, j; half black, half red, k; half black, half red and unpainted bands,
/; half red, half green, black ring separating halves, m; half black, half unpainted, n;
black and red bands, o. Unpeeled painted stick, red and white bands, p. Length of
f, 11.4 cm.
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Painted Sticks, Unpeeled
(Figure 100, p)
Description: Straight, slender, unpeeled sticks, broken at both ends, deco-
rated with paint in the following ways:
Solid color: Red.
Banded: Alternating bands of red(?) and white. The banded specimen
is not smoothed; stubs of branches remain.
Dimensions: Length, 9.5-35.8 cm.; diameter, 0.4-0.8 cm.
Discussion
None of the painted sticks are smoothed or cut at both ends, so it may-
be assumed that they are all fragments. There are a few specimens that
probably had large diameters (see fig. 100, d); these may be bow frag-
ments. All types of peeled sticks are found from the Pine Lawn through the
Reserve Phase of O Block Cave. Unpeeled sticks are found in the Reserve
Phase of O Block Cave and Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling. More single color
sticks than any other type are found in any given Phase of O Block; all
types are present in the same proportions in all phases. The same colors
were employed throughout the occupation of the cave.
The color blue is not present in the meager collection of similar painted
sticks from Tularosa and Cordova caves (Martin, Rinaldo, and others,
1952, pp. 354, 422-423). Grange's conclusion (op. cit., p. 354) that painted
sticks were introduced into the Mogollon area during or after the San
Francisco Phase must be modified in view of the sample from the Pine
Lawn Phase of O Block Cave. However, the evidence from all of the
three Mogollon caves indicates that painted sticks increased in importance
in Reserve times.
Similar sticks have been reported in the Anasazi area from Betatakin
(Judd, 1931, p. 61) and Shumapovi (Fewkes, 1904, p. 99).
TABLITAS
(Figure 101)
Description: Broken, thin, flat pieces of wood, produced by splitting
larger sticks or boards. Surfaces not smoothed after splitting; some edges
cut and smoothed. Fragments usually roughly rectangular, but one speci-
men is worked to a rounded point (fig. 101, e). Another specimen, painted
green, is plano-convex in outline with notches near the points, and has a
hole near the center for a cord (fig. 101, A); this shape is similar to that of a
worked sherd (fig. 76). Some fragments have paired small holes 5-24 mm.
Fig. 101. Tablitas: striped black, a; bull's eye, red, white, and black, b; un-
painted, large drilled hole, c; spotted black and white, d; rounded point, charred, e;
unpainted with black markings, /; black design, g; green, shaped like worked sherd,
h; marked with gum, /; black circle with green center, j; stepped design, red and
white, black border, k. Length of^', 8.9 cm.
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apart for cords (fig. 101, ^), others have single large drilled holes 8 mm. in
diameter (fig. 101, c).
A few are undecorated, but many have painted geometric (?) designs:
Solid color: Black, red, or green.
Striped: Black (fig. 101, a).
Circular motif (bull's eye pattern): Black, red, and white; black and
green; black and white (fig. 101, b,j).
Stepped design: Red and white with black border (fig. 101, k).
Spotted: Black with rounded rectangular white spots (fig. 101, d).
Diamond pattern (?): Green diamond, black background.
Some thin boards from Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling, without decoration,
are marked with gum (fig. 101, i).
Dimensions: Length, 3.8-29.7 cm.; width, 1.0-7.8 cm.; thickness, 0.1-€.8
cm.
Discussion
Tablita fragments probably represent items of ceremonial equipment.
The solid red, striped, circular motifs and green diamond designs resemble
some found by Cosgrove (1947, fig. 125, e, f, i) and Grange (Martin,
Rinaldo, and others, 1952, fig. 155, e). Those with stepped design are not
reported elsewhere.
Tablitas have been reported only in the Mogollon and Hueco areas
(Cosgrove, 1947, p. 134; Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, pp. 354,
421-422, and figs. 155, 156). Their occurrence in the O Block Cave,
Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling, and Cosper Cliff-Dwelling indicates that they
were known from Pine Lawn through Tularosa times; in Cordova Cave
they occurred in both Plain Ware and Late levels (op. cit., fig. 132).
Tablitas seem to increase in popularity around San Francisco or Three
Circle times. In the Pine Lawn Phase of the O Block Cave and the
Plain Ware Phase of Cordova Cave, black is the only color used for decora-
tion; the other colors occur later.
REED CIGARETTES
(Figure 99, a-d)
Reed Cigarettes, Septum Pierced
Description: Short lengths of square-cut cane, with a single node, usually
near one end; if cotton-wrapped, node is in center. Septum is pierced and
one end is filled with short sections of broken cane and slender stems of
tobacco {Nicotiana attemiata?) in the long end. Some specimens charred at
long end or burnt to stubs.
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Decorated specimens have plain cotton yam wound around the middle
ten to twelve times, with the ends tucked under the band in place of a knot.
Dimensions: Length, 3.8, 4.2, 3.4, 5.3, 5.6 cm.; diameter, 0.6, 0.7, 0.7,
0.7, 0.8 cm. Burnt specimens shorter.
Reed Cigarettes, Septum Unpierced
Description: Short lengths of square-cut cane, with single node, usually in
the center. Septum is unpierced, and one or both ends are filled with split
pieces of cane and tobacco {Nicotiana attenuata?). Ends of some slightly
charred.
Decorated specimens have red cord of hard fiber wrapped once or twice
around the middle, with ends loose.
Dimensions: Length, 4.0-7.6 cm., average 6.0 cm.; diameter, 0.6-0.9 cm.,
average 0.7 cm.
Material: Cane {Phragmites communis).
Discussion
The distribution of reed cigarettes in Pine Lawn-through-Tularosa
Phase levels in O Block Cave, Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling, and Cosper
Cliff-Dwelling confirms the temporal range of this trait found in Tularosa
and Cordova caves (Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, pp. 351-354,
418-421, figs. 131-132). Cigarettes from Tularosa Cave, like those from
the sites reported above, had both pierced and unpierced septa. While
those with unpierced septa could not be smoked, both specimens of both
types were plain and decorated, indicating that probably both were used
for ceremonial purposes. More elaborate bundle decoration was found on
specimens from Tularosa Cave than on specimens from the sites excavated
in 1952.
Reed cigarettes occur in the Anasazi area in Pueblo II (Bartlett, 1934,
pp. 38-39), Pueblo III (Haury, 1945b, p. 53; Morris, 1919, pp. 57-58),
and Pueblo IV (Haury, 1934, p. 114). They also occur late in the Hoho-
kam area (Fewkes, 1912, p. 135; Haury, 1945a, pp. 194-196, and 1950,
p. 426; Hough, 1914, p. 107). Their occurrence in the Pine Lawn Phase in
the Mogollon area is the earliest in the Southwest.
REED FLUTE
(Figure 102, a)
Description: Section of hollow cane with round hole on side and no block-
ing nodes.
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Dimensions: Length, 11.4 cm.; diameter, 0.8 cm.; distance from hole to
end, 2.0 cm.
Discussion
The one reed flute taken from O Block Cave was found in a Three
Circle level. Similar flutes were reported from Pre-Pottery, Pine Lawn, and
Georgetown levels of Tularosa Cave (Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952,
pp. 357, 429-430, fig. 131). Cosgrove (1947, p. 120) also reported them
from "Pueblo" period sites in the Upper Gila area. On this evidence it
would seem that the trait was known throughout the Mogollon sequence.
In the Anasazi area, also, flutes have been reported from Basketmaker
II (Kidder and Guernsey, 1919, p. 186), Pueblo III (Pepper, 1920, pp.
108-109), and Pueblo IV (Haury, 1934, p. 114) sites. The only specimen
from Ventana Cave was found in the Papago level (Haury, 1950, p. 425).
WOODEN DIE
(Figure 99, h)
Description: Split, unpeeled stick, concavo-convex cross section, ends
square cut, slightly charred.
Dimensions: Length, 7.0 cm.; width, 0.8 cm.; thickness, 0.4 cm.
Discussion
Wooden dice are usually peeled, but the one from Hinkle Park Cliff'-
Dwelling and some of the collection from Tularosa Cave (Martin, Rinaldo,
and others, 1952, pp. 355-356, 423-428) had bark left on one side. In
Tularosa Cave the specimens are found from Pre-Pottery through San
Francisco; the Hinkle Park specimen adds the Transitional Reserve-
Tularosa Phase to the time span.
Specimens in the Anasazi area occur as early as Basketmaker II (Kidder
and Guernsey, 1919, p. 186). They are also reported from Pueblo III sites
(Morris, 1919, p. 45; Pepper, 1920, pp. 36, 108).
PAHOS
Knob-Ended Pahos?
(Figure 102, c, e)
Description: Shaped stick, peeled or unpeeled, with knob at one end, two
painted with purple or red stain. On one specimen there is a small charred
area.
Dimensions: Length, 5.8, 10.5, 21.5 cm.; diameter, 2.3-3.0, 1.8-1.9,
0.3-1.3 cm.
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Stained Crooked Sticks (Pahos?)
Description: Pithy crooked sticks; part of bark remains, stained red-
purple.
Dimensions: Length, 21.0, 7.0 cm.; diameter, 0.8, 0.9 cm.
Fig. 102. Reed flute, a; corn cob mounted on stick, b; knob-ended pahos(?),
c, e; ring paho, d. Diameter of d, 4.2 cm.
Ring Paho
(Figure 102, d)
Description: Fiber ring wrapped with additional strips of fiber. Piece of
string tied around ring at one point, as if it might have been for suspension.
Dimensions: Diameter, 4.2 cm.; thickness, 0.7-1.2 cm.
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Corn Cob Mounted on Stick
(Figure 102, b)
Description: Corn cob impaled on slender, peeled stick.
Dimensions: Length, 11.1 cm.; diameter of corn cob, 2.0 cm.; diameter of
stick, 0.4 cm.
Discussion
The knob-ended, crooked sticks (pahos?), ring pahos, and corn cobs
mounted on sticks all occur in Reserve or Transitional Reserve-Tularosa
Phases of the O Block Cave and Hinkle Park ClifT-Dwelling. Identifi-
cation of pahos as such is tentative. Only the corn cobs mounted on sticks
have been previously reported from Tularosa Cave (Martin, Rinaldo, and
others, 1952, pp. 356, 428). Cosgrove also found them and in addition
found a ring paho similar to the one reported above (Cosgrove, 1947, pp.
12, 36, 38, 65, 119).
Corn cobs mounted on sticks occur in the Anasazi area in Pueblo III
(Fewkes, 1911, pi. 33; Haury, 1945b, p. 54; Kidder and Guernsey, 1919,
p. 98; Morris, 1919, p. 60) and Pueblo IV (Haury, 1934, p. 114) sites.
The classification of the knob-ended sticks and crooked sticks as possible
pahos is based on the fact that they are painted and do not resemble other
painted sticks.
MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS
Notched Stick
(Figure 92, e)
Description: Peeled, smooth stick that has a notch opposite a bump in the
wood; oval in cross section.
Dimensions: Length, 6.9 cm.; width, 0.9 cm.; thickness, 0.7 cm.; depth of
notch, 0.6 cm.
Burned Straight Sticks
Description: Straight, peeled sticks, partially burned; ends broken and
cut.
Dimensions: Length, 23.0, 25.0 cm.; diameter, 0.9, 0.9 cm.
Cigar-Shaped Object
(Figure 92, i)
Description: Round, charred stick, abraded at both ends to form cigar-
shaped object; elliptical longitudinal in cross section.
Dimensions: Length, 10.1 cm.; width, 1.8 cm. at center.
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Drilled Wood
(Figure 98, a)
Description: Piece of wood, smoothed on one side; hole drilled through it.
Dimensions: Length, 6.8 cm.; width, 1.9 cm.; thickness, 1.1 cm.; diameter
of hole, 0.9 cm.
Tapered Stick
Description: Round stick smoothly tapered to blunt point at one end.
Dimensions: Length, 22.2 cm.; diameter, 1.1 cm.
Split, Tapered Boards
Description: Smoothed, split wood, wedge-shaped in cross section, ta-
pered to slightly curved edge. End of one specimen tapered to blunt
point, the other end rounded from use.
Dimensions: Length, 8.6, 36.8 cm.; width, 1.2, 1.7 cm.; thickness, 0.9,
0.9 cm.
Painted Cane Tube
(Figure 99, ^)
Description: Short length of hollow cane tube; ends cut square or diago-
nal, and charred. Painted red.
Dimensions: Length, 2.5, 4.0, 5.6 cm.; diameter, 1.0, 0.7, 0.7 cm.
Painted Gourd Fragment
Desaiption: Piece of gourd shell painted green on both sides.
Dimensions: Length, 2.5 cm.; width, 1.8 cm.; thickness, 0.1 cm.
Unidentified Worked Wood and Cane Fragments
Description: Cane fragments, sticks, or pieces of wood, peeled or un-
peeled, cut, broken, split, or smoothed, obviously worked. All too fragmen-
tary to be included in any of the above categories.
Discussion
The pieces of wood, gourd, and cane described above may represent
parts of artifacts or merely discarded pieces experimentally worked. Those
described individually come from the late levels and may be found in other
sites. They are therefore separated for possible future comparative pur-
poses. The unidentified wood and cane fragments come from all levels and
are various shapes and sizes. They may be scraps left over from the manu-
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facture of something else or fragments of other artifacts too small to
identify.
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
A total of 549 wooden artifacts and 213 pieces of worked wood was
recovered from Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling, Cosper Cliff-Dwelling, and
O Block Cave. No wooden artifacts were found in Y Canyon Cave.
The majority of these specimens came from levels assigned to the Reserve,
Transitional Reserve-Tularosa, and Tularosa phases and increase our
knowledge of the wooden artifacts associated with the later part of the
Mogollon sequence in the Reserve area. The Reserve and Tularosa levels
of Tularosa Cave were often mixed with San Francisco Phase material and
therefore precise temporal assignment of some artifacts could not be made.
Analysis of the wooden artifacts taken from O Block Cave shows that
there is a continual increase in quantity and diversity of material from the
Pre-Pottery to the Reserve Phase. In the Pre-Pottery Phase there is only
one wooden artifact; in Pine Lawn there are many artifacts but few distinct
types; in the Three Circle and Reserve Phases there is much diversity; only
then do many of the wooden artifacts common in other sites appear. A few
types occur persistently from Pine Lawn to Reserve : bows, arrows, painted
sticks, tablitas, and reed cigarettes.
In general, Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling, which is Transitional Reserve-
Tularosa, has the same wooden assemblage as the Reserve Phase in the
O Block Cave. The few artifacts found in the Cosper Cliff-Dwelling fit in
with the O Block Cave and Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling assemblages. Of
those artifacts which persist throughout the O Block Cave, only one
group — reed cigarettes — also appear in both Hinkle Park and Cosper
Cliff-Dwellings. The larger Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling collection has
more traits in common with the O Block Cave assemblage than with the
assemblages of the other two caves.
There are several categories in the wooden artifact assemblage that are
of special significance when compared to the material from Tularosa
Cave:
The quantity of atlatl equipment is small but falls within a time span
consistent with the Tularosa Cave distribution. The atlatl may have been
used from the Pre-Pottery through the San Francisco and Three Circle,
but probably not in the Reserve Phase.
Bow and arrow fragments occur in relatively large quantities in Pine
Lawn through Reserve levels. The number of both bow and arrow frag-
ments in the Pine Lawn Phase augments Grange's hypothesis that the bow
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and arrow may have had earlier development in the southern part of the
Southwest than in the Anasazi area, where the first occurrence is in
Basketmaker II (Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, p. 341). While this
temporal distribution is consistent with that reported from Tularosa Cave,
there is no evidence of any real shift in emphasis from atlatl to bow and
arrow at the San Francisco period.
Painted sticks constitute the largest category .of wooden artifacts and
show a definite rise in popularity between Three Circle and Reserve, even
though the total number of wooden artifacts also increased. The temporal
distribution in the O Block Cave points to an earlier occurrence in
Mogollon sites than was evident before. In Tularosa Cave, Grange notes
San Francisco as the earliest occurrence; but in the O Block Cave they
occur in substantial numbers in the Pine Lawn Phase.
The tablita, a unique Mogollon artifact, occurs also from Pine Lawn
through Reserve and Tularosa, with more evidence for occurrence in the
Pine Lawn Phase than was previously available from Cordova Cave. Also,
it is noted that until the Three Circle Phase, black is the only color used;
after Three Circle other colors were employed and the quantity of speci-
mens increases.
Reed cigarettes occur from Pine Lawn to Tularosa and agree with
Grange's evidence, although they are more popular in Pine Lawn at O
Block Cave than they were at that time in Tularosa Cave.
Pahos and other ceremonial equipment occur late, whereas much of
Grange's ceremonial equipment occurs early and late. Such artifacts as
Juniper-berry skewers, reed stems mounted on reed stalks, and feathers
mounted on sticks are lacking in the O Block Cave, Hinkle Park Cliff-
Dwelling, and Cosper Cliff-Dwelling. On the other hand, a paho ring
which was found is new to the Reserve area, although not to the Mogollon
culture. The flute occurring in the Three Circle Phase of O Block Cave is
later than those reported from Tularosa Cave.
Bark and wooden hoes have not been reported from any other site in the
Southwest and occur late in Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling and O Block
Cave. Bark trowels also seem to be late, thereby extending the known
temporal range from Pre-Pottery in Tularosa Cave through Transitional
Reserve-Tularosa in Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling.
Burred sticks occurred late in the O Block Cave, Hinkle Park Cliff-
Dwelling and Cosper Cliff-Dwelling; previously, they were known only as
late as San Francisco.
Concerning Grange's temporal division of pre-A.D. 700 and post-A.D.
700, very little can be said because much of the material that he dealt with
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did not occur in sufficient numbers in the O Block Cave, because that
cave was uninhabited during the Georgetown-through-San Francisco pe-
riod, and because in some cases a shift does not occur for that cave. Grange
states: "The changes occurring in the San Francisco Phase are the intro-
duction and /or increased use of the bow and arrow; introduction of cere-
monial and miniature bows and arrows; introduction of painted sticks;
introduction of sticks with knotted yucca leaf bindings; absence of reed
flutes; a shift from plano-convex to cylindrical fire drill hearths; increase in
reed cigarettes; decline in Juniper- berry skewers; decline in wooden cylin-
ders; decline in split sticks; decline in sticks with fiber and sinew and hair
bindings; decline in bark trowels; decline in wooden dice; decline in twigs
tied in loops; and decline in worked gourd." (Martin, Rinaldo, and others,
1952, p. 361.) Sticks with knotted yucca leaf bindings, Juniper-berry
skewers, split sticks, sticks with fiber, sinew, and hair bindings, twigs tied in
loops, and worked gourd fragments do not occur in the 1952 collection.
Their absence, plus the fact that most of the O Block Cave mate-
rial is from phases of Three Circle or later, offers proof of this decline before
the San Francisco Phase. Only one wooden die was found in O Block
Cave. Two plano-convex fire drill hearths were discovered in the
Three Circle Phase of the O Block Cave, suggesting that the shift from
plano-convex to cylindrical may be true only for Tularosa Cave. One reed
flute came from a Three Circle level of the O Block Cave, and bark
and wood trowels and hoes occurred in Hinkle Park and Cosper Cliff"-
Dwellings, indicating that both types of tools were known after a.d. 700 in
the Mogollon area. We have no evidence from the O Block Cave for
an increase in popularity of the functional bow and arrow, for they are
found in about the same percentage throughout that cave. The fact that
one ceremonial bow fragment was found in both Tularosa and O Block
caves in the Pine Lawn levels suggests that this type of artifact may
have been known at that time, although in both sites the type increases in
popularity after a.d. 700. Painted sticks are so abundant in the Pine Lawn
levels of the O Block Cave that they must have been introduced into
the area at that time instead of in the San Francisco Phase.
We lack evidence to change Grange's conclusions in many cases; we
may agree with him on the introduction of ceremonial bows, but definitely
disagree on the introduction of painted sticks at a.d. 700.
In Tularosa Cave the quantity of ceremonial equipment increased from
Pine Lawn to Tularosa. In O Block Cave this is likewise true. There is
a greater percentage of ceremonial equipment in the Pine Lawn Phase
at the O Block Cave than in the Pine Lawn Phase of Tularosa Cave,
although in the Reserve Phase there is about the same percentage. In
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O Block Cave there is also a smaller quantity of what we might call
"domestic" equipment (digging sticks, hoes, burred sticks, etc.) and more
hunting equipment (bows and arrows, atlatls, etc.) than in Tularosa Cave.
Thus it is evident not only that different phases have different emphases in
wooden artifact assemblages, but also that different sites have different
over-all emphases.
VIL Summary
By Paul S. Martin
Four caves were excavated during the season of 1952: Y Canyon,
Cosper, Hinkle Park, and O Block. Cosper and Hinkle Park caves
contained cliff-dwellings. These are the first MogoIIon cliff-dwellings that
have been carefully dug and for which the details have been published.
We now have an adequate sample of perishable and imperishable speci-
mens representative of the Reserve Phase.
The estimated dates for Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling are about a.d.
1100-1200, and for Cosper Cliff-Dwelling about a.d. 1300.
In general, the architecture of these cave-houses resembles that found in
cliff- houses of the Anasazi area. The masonry is not so good as the best at
Mesa Verde, but for the most part it is good. The masonry of the Sierra
Ancha cliff-dwellings (Haury, 1934) is very close in most details to that at
Hinkle Park. The masonry of the two rooms in Cosper Cave is crude and
rough by comparison. The method of roofing the rooms is similar to one
type of roof found at Mesa Verde and at Chaco Canyon. Other details — •
firepits, joining of comers, doorways, smoke holes or vents — remind one of
similar features in the Mesa Verde cliff-dwellings.
None of this is too surprising, since we feel that the architectural ideas of
the Anasazi caught the fancy of the Mogollon Indians during this epoch.
One comment about the masonry of the surface houses of the Pine
Lawn area during the Reserve Phase (a.d. 1000 plus) is in order here.
The masonry of the houses at open sites in the Pine Lawn area is crude in-
deed and not laid in even courses. The individual stones used in the walls of
these houses were unshaped stream boulders of varying sizes. The stones in
the walls of Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling were selected, were usually flat,
were often shaped and tooled, and were almost always laid in regular
courses. On the basis of the artifacts, we can detect little difference in time
between the two types of sites, although the cliff-dwellings are somewhat
later. Of course, we know that some changes in culture and improvements
in technique can often take place swiftly. Perhaps, then, it should not be
surprising to find that the Mogollon masons who built the rooms in Hinkle
Park Cave were better technicians than their fathers or grandfathers.
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SUMMARY 213
Many storage pits were found in Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling; such pits
are typical of Mogollon houses from the Pine Lawn Phase to the Reserve
Phase.
The pottery from the four caves consisted of familiar types with brown
wares predominating. A list of all types is given in Chapter III. The bar
graphs (fig. 25) indicate that Cosper Cliff-Dwelling was slightly younger
than Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling. The stratigraphy was significant in
Cosper, Hinkle Park, and O Block caves; the sequences and trends in
popularity of pottery types corroborated those which we found in Tularosa
and Cordova caves.
Stone and bone artifacts were recovered in fair quantity. Several inter-
esting and important contributions have sprung from the detailed analysis
of these specimens. One of these is the vast amount of fundamental infor-
mation concerning artifacts of the Reserve and Tularosa phases. Tularosa
and Cordova caves yielded no levels that could be assigned to the Reserve
Phase only. Much of the material from the 1952 excavations of the four
caves could be surely assigned to the Reserve Phase. Now we feel we have a
goodly quantity of stone and bone tools of the Reserve Phase and can state
with a fair degree of confidence what is typical of that phase; namely, axes,
arrow-shaft tools, beveled manos, and slender triangular projectile points.
The other contribution from the analysis of stone tools has to do with the
use of projectile points as chronological markers or phase indicators. In the
study of over 700 projectile points and blades from Tularosa and Cordova
caves, Rinaldo noted the vertical distribution of these specimens. He tenta-
tively suggested that some types might be useful in assigning a relative date
to given levels and strata (Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952, pp. 113 and
497), especially when used with other categories — pottery, textiles, san-
dals, and the like — that might turn out to be sensitive time indicators. In
analyzing the projectile points from the 1952 digs, Dr. Rinaldo tested the
formulae that he had tentatively worked out in other years. Great was his
satisfaction when he found that the relative dates which he assigned to cer-
tain cave levels, purely on the basis of projectile point typology, were the
same as those that had been assigned by means of pottery analysis. A char-
acteristic late or Reserve Phase type is a small, thin, diagonal notched
point; and an earlier type is a comer notched, thinned, concave-base point.
Similar trends were noted in scrapers, drills, choppers, metates, manos,
sandals, cloth, matting, atlatl equipment, bows and arrows, cigarettes,
Juniper-berry sticks and the like. Therefore, if the trends oi all materials — ■
perishable and non-perishable — are carefully worked out, one will not
have to depend entirely on ceramics for dating. We have used this hy-
pothesis in all our work of the past few years and find that it helps us in
puzzling situations.
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The cordage, sandals, and textiles came mostly from the late phases
(Three Circle, Reserve, and Tularosa) and therefore add to the knowledge
of periods that were least well represented in Tularosa and Cordova caves.
These artifacts, too, show trends through time and are just as good for
dating as stone tools are. The typical sandal of the Reserve and Tularosa
phases is a plaited one of wide elements. Twilled matting appears to be
more popular, too, in these late phases.
The wooden artifacts likewise came mostly from the Reserve and Tula-
rosa phases and add greatly to our previously scanty knowledge of these
times. They, too, may be used independently of pottery to assign relative
dates to cave levels. A few major conclusions concerning this class of ma-
terial may be mentioned here:
The data we have on atlatls and atlatl equipment are in accord with
what Grange reported (Martin, Rinaldo, and others, 1952).
A number (24) of arrow fragments and two bow fragments from Pine
Lawn levels of the O Block Cave tend to add further credence to
Grange's hypothesis that the bow and arrow had earlier development and
usage in the southern part of the Southwest. Painted sticks were abundant
and their range in time has now been pushed back from the San Francisco
Phase to the Pine Lawn Phase. Tablitas also occur in the Pine Lawn
Phase. Black is the only color in early times; colors and quantity increase
through time. Bark trowels were found in Pre-Pottery horizons. A paho
ring has been found and is the first reported from the Reserve area.
The O Block Cave has a greater proportion of ceremonial artifacts
than Tularosa or Cordova caves. It is possible that in early times (Pine
Lawn Phase) this cave was used more for ceremonial and camping than for
domestic purposes.
No burials were found in the 1952 season.
The plant remains have not yet been studied, but we may state that we
found maize, beans, squash, pinyon nuts, walnuts, yucca pads, quids and
wads, cactus, wild gourds, and thistles.
Thus, we see that the importance of the materials from the 1952 season
lies in the fact that most of it can be pinned down to late time horizons.
Our materials from Tularosa and Cordova caves were adequately repre-
sentative of the earlier phases of the Mogollon culture; but since the upper
levels of those caves were so badly churned and disturbed, we could not be
sure which of the artifacts were typical of the Three Circle, Reserve, and
Tularosa phases. In fact, materials of the Three Circle Phase were appar-
ently lacking from those caves.
Now with these new data, we can go over the specimens from the
mixed, late levels of Tularosa and Cordova caves and date them with a
SUMMARY 215
fair presumption of being right, because we have good dated materials
with which to work.
Without depending on pottery, we can now use trends (frequencies) in
popularity of specimens — perishable and imperishable — for determining
relative dates in cave levels.
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Ind
ex
Abrading stones, 110, 111, 112, 114
Ackmen, pit covers, 116; stone balls, 115
Adams, Robert M., 7
Alamogordo, arrow shaft straighteners,
112
Alder, Thomas P., 7
Alma Incised, 63
Alma Plain, 56, 63, 64
Alma Punched, 63
Alma Rough, 64
Anasazi, 212; arrows, 189; atlatls, 184
awls, wood, 196; bows, 189; braid
177; burden straps, braided, 177
carrying-loop chain, 166; cloth, 170
coiled basketry, 173; cordage, 163
corn cob mounted on stick, 206
cylinders, wood, 198; dice, wood, 204
digging sticks, 190; fire drill hearths
194; fur cord, 164; knots, 165; manos
beveled, 101; matting, twilled, 176
painted sticks, 200; reed cigarettes,
203, flutes, 204; projectile points, 139
sandals, plaited, 170, 178, wickerwork,
169; trowels, bark and wood, 192
Anderson, Patricia J., 8
Animal bones, occurrence of unworked,
155
Animal effigies, 152, 156
Antler flakers, 147
Apache pottery, 70
Arizona W:10:51, 156
Arrow points, 139
Arrows, 186-189
Arrow shaft straighteners, 112
Arrow shaft tools, 110-112, 158
Artifacts, bone, 91, 146-149, 213; stone,
87-142, 213; wood, 181-211
Atlatl darts, 181-185
Atlatls, 181-185, 208-209, 211, 214;
occurrence of by phases, 1 80
Atwood, Edward, 8
Atwood, Robert, 8
Awls, see Bone awls. Wooden awls
Awl sharpeners, 110, 111, 112
Axes, 115, 116, 158; grooved, 141; three
quarters grooved, 116
Azurite, 157; see also Pigments
Babocomari village, 107; arrow shaft
straighteners, 112; needles, 145; pit
covers, 116
Balls, stone, 112-114, 115
Bar graphs, pottery, 67
Basketmaker, sandals, 169, 170; netting,
172
Basketry, 173, 178-179; coiled, 172, 173;
occurrence of types by phases, 1 62
Beads, 145; stone, 141
Bears, animal effigies, 1 56
Betatakin, painted sticks, 200; stone balls,
115
Blades, 89, 138, 139, 141; notched, 141
Blue, Arizona, 18
Blue River, 19-20
Bone awls, 146-147, 149; splinter type,
147, 149
Bows, ceremonial, 185, 189; miniature,
185, 188, 189
Bows and arrows, 185-189, 208-211;
ceremonial, 210; miniature, 210; oc-
currence of by phases, 180
Bracelets, 144, 145; blanks, 145
Bradfield site, arrow shaft straighteners,
112
Braid, 177; see also Plaiting
Broman, Vivian, 7
Brown-ware bowl, 64
Burred sticks, 195, 209, 211
Camp Verde, plaited sandals, 170
Canyon Creek Site, twilled matting, 176
Canyon del Muerto, arrows, 189
Carey, Robert E., 8
Carrying-loop chain, 165-166
Ceremonial objects, 114
Cerros Red-on-White, 56
Chaco, 107
Chaco Canyon, 212
Charred, shouldered, pointed sticks, 195-
196
Chetro Ketl, jar stoppers, 115
Chihuahua, arrow shaft straighteners,
112; ax, three quarters grooved, 116
Choppers, 135
Cibola, ax, three quarters grooved, 1 1 6
Cloth, cotton, 170, 178; occurrence of by
phases, 162
Cordage, 159-164, 178-179; bast fibers,
definition of, 159; feather, 164, 178;
fiber, 159; fur, 163, 178; hard fibers,
definition of, 159; occurrence of types
by phases, 160; surface fibers, definition
of, 159; yarns, definition of, 159
Cordage artifacts, occurrence of types by
phases, 161
223
224
CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
Cordova Cave, 101 ; atlatls, 184; cordage,
163; cordage and textiles, 178; knots,
165; netting, 172; painted sticks, 200;
pendants, 145; projectile points, 140,
213; reed cigarettes, 203; scrapers, 141 ;
spatulas, 194; tablitas, 202, 209;
wickerwork sandals, 168; yucca leaf
spine needles, 196
Corn cob mounted on stick, 206
Cosper Cliff-Dwelling, 29, 107; architec-
ture, 33-37; dates, 212; fill, 26; loca-
tion, 18; methods of excavation, 24;
Room A, 34; Room B, 36; surface
indications, 20
Cosper, John, 8, 18
Cotton, 170; cordage, 159
Counters, 153; see Sherds, worked
Crackel, Mary, 8
Crystals, 157
Dalstrom, Gustaf, 8
Dart bunt, bone, 148
Dart points, 139
Dice, bone, 147; wood, 204, 210
Digging sticks, 189-190, 211; occurrence
of by phases, 180
Discoidal, 134
Dragoon, three quarters grooved ax, 116
Drills, 90, 136-138, 139, 141, 144, 157;
plain shafted, 136; see also Crystals
Dupont Cave, carrying-loop chain, 166
Ear-rings, 145
Egan, W. T., 7
Excavation, methods of, 24; procedure, 29
Feather carders, 195
Fiber coils, 165
Field, Stanley, 7
Figurine, 152, 153; human, 158
Fire drill hearths, 192-194, 210
Flakers, bone, 147
Flute, reed, 203-204, 209
Gaines, Wayne, 7
Gourd, painted, 207
Gravers, 138, 139
Gray ware, corrugated neck, tooled, 56
Gregg, CUfford C, 7
Grinders, pigment, 115
Grinding stone, paint, 157
Gulf of California, 145
Gurley, Clair E., 8
Hammerstones, 110, 112, 116
Handstones, 100, 157
Havasupai, 107
Hematite, 106, 107, 156, 157; see also
Pigments
Hinkle Park Cliff-Dwelling, 29, 106, 108;
animal effigies, 156; architecture,
37-52; arrow shaft tools, 112; axes,
grooved, 141; dates, 212; fill, 26; jar
stoppers, 115, 116; location, 20;
methods of excavation, 24; needles,
145; pottery types, trends, 66-68;
Room A, 37; Room B, 40; Room C,
42; Room D, 42; Room E, 45; Room
F, 45; Room G, 46; Room H, 47;
Room I, 48; Room J, 48; Room K, 48;
storage pits, 213; surface indications, 22;
trash area, 50; unworked animal bones,
155; worked slabs, 109
Hoes, bark and wood, 191-192, 209;
wood, 211
Hohokam, arrows, 189; ax, three quarters
grooved, 116; braid, 177; burred sticks,
195; cloth, 170; cordage, 163; digging
sticks, 190; feather cord, 164; fire drill
hearths, 194; fur cord, 164; matting,
twilled, 176; reed cigarettes, 203;
wickerwork sandals, 168
Hopi, carrying-loop chain, 1 66
Hopi sites, ax, three quarters grooved, 116
Horizon markers, 140, 141
Hueco area, awls, wood, 196; cylinders,
wood, 198; spatulas, 194
Incised Corrugated, 53, 56, 64
Indented Corrugated with polished red,
slipped interior, 56
Indented Corrugated with red interior, 56
Indented Corrugated with smudged in-
terior, 56
Jar stoppers, miniature, 115, 116
Juniper berry, 100
Juniper berry skewers, 209, 210
Kelly, Marjorie, 7
Keney, Charles W., 8
Kiatuthlanna Black-on-White, 63
Kiatuthlanna, pendants, 145
Kiehne, Emil O., 8
Knives, 90, 112; flake, 128, 138, 141, 144
Knots, 164, 165; granny, 164-165, 171,
172; occurrence of types by phases,
161; overhand, 164-165; single bow,
164; single half hitch, 164; square,
164-165
Ladle, miniature, 152, 156
Linden Corrugated, 56
Los Muertos, figurine, 153; needles, 145
Mabon, David, 7
MacDonald Corrugated, 53
Malachite, 157; see Pigments
Manos, 87-96, 100, 157; beveled, 96
100, 101, 158; one hand, 100, 101
rectangular, 100; two hand, 100, 101
see also Rubbing stones
Marrow, 149
Marsh Pass, worked sherds, 153
INDEX
225
Masonry, 212
Matting, 178-179; occurrence of by
phases, 162; twilled, 173-176, 178, 214
Mauls, 116
Mealing bins, 107
Medicine cylinders, 145
Mesa Verde, 212
Metate-like grinding stones, 104
Metates, 88, 101-104; basin type, 100,
101, 103, 107; slab type, 101, 107;
trough type, 100, 103, 104, 106, 107
Milling stones, 104, 106, 112
Mimbres, three quarters grooved ax, 116
Mimbres Bold Face Black-on-White, 56,
63
Mimbres Classic Black-on-White, 56
Mimbres Corrugated, 53, 56
Mimbres Neck Corrugated, 56
Miniature pots, 64
Mogollon, bone tools, 149; culture, 214
Mountain lions, animal effigies, 156
Mountain sheep, animal effigies, 156
NAN Ranch Ruin, worked sherds, 153
Needles, 145; shell, 144; yucca leaf spine,
196
Net, rabbit, 171, 172
Netting, 171-172, 178
Nose plugs, 145
Notched rib, 147
Obelisk Cave, arrows, 189
O Block Cave, 29, 106, 107, 157, 214;
animal bone, unworked, 155; cere-
monial artifacts, 214; figurine, 154;
fill, 26; location, 23; methods of exca-
vation, 24; natural levels, 26; projectile
points, 139; stratigraphy, 71; surface
indications, 23
Ornaments, 90; see also Bracelets, Beads,
Pendants
Pacific Coast, arrow shaft straighteners,
112
Pahos, 204-206, 209; knob-ended, 204,
206; ring, 205-206, 209
Painted sticks, 198-200, 209, 214; occur-
rence of by phases, 180
Paint grinding stones, 104, 106
Pecos, digging sticks, 190; pit covers, 116;
stone balls, 115
Pendants, 145; stone, 142
Petit, Alain, 7
Phase indicators, projectile points, 213
Pigments, 156-157; hematite, 156; lime-
stone, 157
Pinedale Black-on-Red, 53
Pine Lawn Phase, arrow fragments, 214;
spoons, 156
Pipes, stone, 113, 114; tubular, 115
Pit covers, 115, 116
Plain and Indented Corrugated, 53, 56, 65
Plain Corrugated, 53, 56
Plain Corrugated with smudged interior,
53
Plaiting, 176, 177
Point of Pines, animal effigies, 156
Polishing stones, 99-100, 101
Poncho House, blades, 139
Pot covers, 1 52
Pottery, 53-86; artifacts, 90; bar-type
graph, 53; occurrence, Cosper Cliff-
Dwelling, 55, 77, Hinkle Park Cliff
Dwelling, 55, 78-79, O Block Cave, 54,
80-86, South Leggett Pueblo, 55,
Three Pines Pueblo, 55, Wet Leggett
Pueblo, 55, Y Canyon Cave, 74-76;
painted wares. Reserve Phaise, 56,
Three Circle Phase, 63, Tularosa
Phase, 53, Pine Lawn Phase, 64; plain
wares. Reserve Phase, 56, Three Circle
Phase, 63, Tularosa Phase, 56; restored,
64-65; seriation, 67; textured wares.
Reserve Phase, 56, Three Circle Phase,
63, Tularosa Phase, 53; trade wares.
Reserve Phase, 56, Three Circle Phase,
63, Tularosa Phase, 56; trends in,
Cosper Cliff-Dwelling, 66-68, O Block
Cave, 68-70, Y Canyon Cave, 70;
wedge-bar graph, 70
Pottery types, alphabetical list of, 72-73;
by phase, 53-64; see also Alma Incised;
Alma Plain; Alma Punched; Alma
Rough; Apache pottery; Cerros Red-
on-White; Gray ware, corrugated
neck, tooled; Incised Corrugated;
Indented Corrugated with polished
red, slipped interior; Indented Corru-
gated with red interior; Indented
Corrugated with smudged interior;
Kiatuthlanna Black-on-White; Linden
Corrugated; MacDonald Corrugated;
Mimbres Bold Face Black-on-White;
Mimbres Classic Black-on-White;
Mimbres Corrugated; Mimbres Neck
Corrugated; Pinedale Black-on-Red;
Plain and Indented Corrugated;
Plain Corrugated; Plain Corrugated
with smudged interior; Puerco Black-
on-White; Punched Corrugated; Red
Indented Corrugated; Red Indented
Corrugated, smudged interior; Red
Mesa Black-on-White; Reserve Black-
on-White; Reserve Fillet Rim; Reserve
Indented Corrugated; Reserve
Smudged; St. Johns Polychrome; San
Francisco Red; San Francisco Red
with punched and smoothed corru-
gated exteriors; Smudged Decorated;
Three Circle Neck Corrugated; Three
Circle Red-on-White; Tularosa Black-
on-White; Tularosa Fillet Rim; Tu-
larosa Patterned-Plain-and-Indented
Corrugated; Tularosa White-on-Red;
226
CAVES OF THE RESERVE AREA
Tusayan Polychrome; Wingate Black-
on-Red
Prayer Rock district, figurine, 154
Projectile points, 89, 116-128, 138, 139,
140, 141, 213; chip, 125; corner
notched, 116-118, 122, 140; diagonal
notched, 118, 140; lateral notched,
120-122, 124; leaf-shaped, 118, 122-
124; phase indicators, 213; Reserve
Phase type, 213; triangular, 125, 158
Puerco Black-on-White, 56
Punched Corrugated, 56
Rats, bones, 149
Red Indented Corrugated, 53, 56
Red Indented Corrugated, smudged in-
terior, 56
Red Mesa Black-on-White, 56
Reed cigarettes, 202-203, 209, 210; oc-
currence of by phases, 1 80
Reserve Black-on-White, 56
Reserve Fillet Rim, 56
Reserve Indented Corrugated, 53, 56
Reserve Indented Corrugated, smudged
interior, 64
Reserve Phase, 212, 213; projectile
points, 213; sites of, 109
Reserve Phase sites, grooved ax, 141
Reserve Smudged, 56, 63, 65
Rock falls, 31
Ross, Lillian A., 8
Rubbing stones, 88, 96-99, 100, 101,
157; see also Manos
Sacaton Phase, needles, 145
St. Johns Polychrome, 53
Salado, three quarters grooved ax, 116
San Augustine Plains, 17
Sandals, 166-170, 178-179; fishtail, 169;
four-warp wickerwork, 166-169; oc-
currence of types by phases, 162;
plaited of wide elements, 166-170; two-
warp wickerwork, 166-169; typical,
Reserve Phase, 214, Tularosa Phase,
214
Sandia points, 141
San Francisco Red, 56, 63
San Francisco Red with punched and
smoothed corrugated exteriors, 56
San Francisco Red, Saliz Variety, 64
San Francisco River, 23
San Juan, 107
San Simon, three quarters grooved ax,
116
San Simon Branch, 107
Santa Cruz Phase, needles, 145
Saw, 138
Scoops, 151, 153; see also Worked sherds
Scrapers, 90, 128-134, 138, 139; biface,
138; end, 134, 139, 141; hollow-edged,
134, 139; planes, 135-136; serrate, 130;
serrate side, 141; side, 128-134, 139
Shell, beads, 144; bracelets, 142, 144;
Glycymeris, 145; pendants, 144
Sherd counts, 53
Sherds, worked, 149
Shumapovi, painted sticks, 200
Sierra Ancha, 212
Sinagua, three quarters grooved ax, 116
Skinner, Robert, 8
Smudged Decorated, 56
Snaketown, twilled matting, 176
Snaketown Phase, needles, 145
Sonora, 145
South Leggett Pueblo, pottery, 67
Spatulas, 194
Spindle whorls, 150, 153; see also Worked
sherds
Spoons, 156
Squirrels, bones, 149
Starkweather Ruin, clay effigies, 156;
worked slabs, 110
Stone artifacts, ground and pecked, 88;
see also Axes, Manos, Metates
Storage pits, 213
SU, bracelets, 145; pit covers, 116; stone
balls, 114
Swarts Ruin, bracelets, 145; metates,
107; talisman, 145; worked sherds,
153; worked slabs, 110
Tablitas, 200-202, 209, 214
Talisman, 145
Texas, arrow shaft straighteners, 112;
wickerwork sandals, 169; see also
Hueco area
Textiles, 164-179; occurrence of types
by phases, 162
Thompson, George, 8
Three Circle Neck Corrugated, 53, 63,
65, 140
Three Circle Red-on-White, 63, 140
Three Pines Pueblo, animal effigies, 156;
pottery, 67
Time indicators, 213
Toggles, 195
Tongs, split-stick, 194
Toys, 156
Trash areas, 107
Tres Alamos, arrow shaft straighteners,
112
Trowels, bark, 209, 210; bark and wood,
190-191, 192
Tubes, bone, 149
Tularosa Black-on-White, 53
Tularosa Cave, 101, 106; animal effigies,
156; artifacts, wood, 208; atlatls, 184;
awl, wood, 196; basketry, coiled, 173;
beads and pendants, 145; bows, 187,
189; burred sticks, 195; carrying-loop
chain, 1 65 ; ceremonial equipment, 210;
charred, shouldered, pointed sticks,
195; cloth, 170; cordage, 159, 163;
cordage and textiles, 178; corn cobs
INDEX
227
mounted on sticks, 206; dice, wood,
204; digging sticks, 190; fiber coils, 165;
figurines, 154; fire drill hearths, 193;
fur and feather cord, 163, 164; knots,
165; ladles, miniature, 156; malachite,
157; matting, twilled, 174; net, 172;
painted sticks, 200, 209; plaited san-
dals, 169; projectile points, 138, 140,
213; reed, cigarettes, 203, 209, flute,
204, 209; scrapers, 141; spatulas, 194;
stone balls, 114; toggles, 195; tongs,
split-stick, 194; trowels, bark, 192, 209,
wood, 192; tubular pipes, 115; wicker-
work sandals, 168, 169
Tularosa Fillet Rim, 53, 56, 65
Tularosa Indented Corrugated, 65
Tularosa Patterned-Plain-and-Indented
Corrugated, 53, 56
Tularosa White-on-Red, 65
Turkey Foot Ridge, figurine, 154;
grooved ax, 141 ; miniature ladles, 156;
pit covers, 116; stone balls, 115
Turner, Frank, 8
Tusayan Polychrome, 56
Upper Gila Area, arrows, 189; awls,
wood, 196; bow, 188; braid, 177; cloth,
170; cylinders, wood, 198; fire drill
hearths, 193; projectile points, 139;
reed flutes, 204; worked slabs, 110
Ventana Cave, awls, wood, 196; arrows,
189; basketry, coiled, 173; burred
sticks, 195; cloth, 170; cylinders, wood,
198; digging sticks, 190; fur cord, 164;
knots, 165; matting, twilled, 176; reed
flutes, 204; spatulas, 194; tongs, 194;
wickerwork sandals, 168, 169; yucca
leaf spine needle, 196
Village of the Great Kivas, jar stoppers,
115
Wet Leggett Pueblo, pottery, 67
White Dog Cave, net, 172, 178
Winchester Cave, burred sticks, 195; fire
drill hearths, 193
Wingate Black-on-Red, 56
Wooden awls, 196
Wooden cylinders, 196-198
Worked sherds, 149-152, 153
Worked slabs, 108-110; door, 108
Wyant, Robert, 8
Y Canyon, 157
Y Canyon Cave, 29; fill, 26; location, 17;
methods of excavation, 24; natural
levels, 26; surface indications, 17
Zuni sites, three quarters grooved ax, 116
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