Kiva Offering
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1927
name: label: Donor Name
content: National Geographic Society
label: Site Name
content: Pueblo Bonito
notes: label: Notes
content: includes canid, cougar and bear bones from 3, apparently paws
label: Notes
content: Found in concealed niche of N. wall. Contents of offering: Bottom of corrugated pot; Bottom B. on W. jar; 3 chipped blades, California type, (L. 7 1/4"; 8-5/8"; 9 1/4"); 1 barbed spearhead, (L. 1-7/8"); 4 flint chips; 4 unworked quartz and quartzite pebbles; 3 quartzite hammer stones; 1 mano fragment, reused for smoothing; 1 concretion dish, slightly worked, (L. 3 1/4" x 2 3/4" x 3/4"); 2 jar covers, (D. 3-3/8" and 4-1/8"); 1 paddle-like stone object with grinding surface on 1 side, (L. 7 1/2" x 5" x 3/8"); 1 clay pipe fragment, (D. 1-3/8" x 2"); 3 bone awls, 1 perforated; 3 arrowheads; misc. turquoise mosaic pieces, undrilled beads, etc.; 3 azurite pebbles, worked; 1 large lot of black bear claws and toe bones (Euaretos americanus) [4 identified in Div. of Mammals as Mountain Lion claws- found in Mammals in 3-91 by Jim Krakker and Molly Coxson. -MC 4-2-91]; 1 lot of vegetable matter; 9 abalone shell pendants (disintegrated); quartzite pebbles, unworked. The 2 large blades, of silicified limestone, contain microscopic fossils (ostracoda) identified by Dr. E. O. Ulrich as "half a dozen species of Cypridae (Bythocypris) and Primitiidae - all very simple and long ranging types" that occur between the Ordovician and lower Devonian.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 May 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 200
place: label: Place
content: Chaco Canyon, San Juan County, New Mexico, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Prehistoric
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 096004
label: USNM Number
content: A336041-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Offering