| | 1 | Author: | unknown | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Tucson Artifacts (Crosses) -- Silverbell Material
circa 1920s-1970 ead | | | | Date(s): | circa 1920s-1970 | | | | Abstract: | The collection documents the discovery, investigation, and prolonged authenticity debate surrounding the Tucson Artifacts (also known as the Silverbell Road artifacts or Lead Crosses), a group of lead objects — crosses, swords, spears, and related items bearing Latin and Hebrew inscriptions — excavated near Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, between 1924 and 1927. Materials include correspondence, reports, statements, typescripts, transcriptions, illustrations, maps, assay certificates, newspaper clippings, publications, and miscellaneous notes drawn from the files of the Arizona State Museum and other sources. Principal figures represented include Byron Cummings, Emil W. Haury, Raymond H. Thompson, A. E. Douglass, Thomas W. Bent, Charles E. Manier, Neil M. Judd, and numerous other scholars and correspondents. The collection incorporates materials previously held as Archives A-054, A-055, A-191, A-192, and A-193. | | | | Repository: | Arizona State Museum | | | | Subjects: | Antiquities -- Collection and preservation -- Arizona. | Archaeological forgeries -- Arizona. | Inscriptions, Latin -- Arizona. | Inscriptions, Hebrew -- Arizona. | Lead objects -- Arizona. | Excavations (Archaeology) -- Arizona -- Tucson Region. | | | | Matches:
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| ...on The Lead Crosses or The Tucson Artifacts -- Emil W. Haury...
...the Artifacts Excavated near Tucson, Pima County, Arizona,...
...Credit Line Tucson Artifacts (Crosses) -- Silverbell...
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| 7 | Author: | Kelly, Isabel T. (Isabel Truesdell), 1906-1983. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Hodges Site Materials: Original Kelly Manuscript, Pottery (continued) ead | | | | Date(s): | unknown | | | | Abstract: | A bound volume comprising pages 186-280 of Isabel T. Kelly's original manuscript on pottery from the Hodges Site (AZ AA:12:18 ASM), a Hohokam site in the Tucson Basin, Pima County, Arizona. This volume is a direct continuation of A-0106 (p. 101-185). Contents include Tanque Verde Red-on-Brown (decorated wares of the Classic Period); a phase distribution chart of decorated vessel forms in the Gila Basin and at Tucson; a discussion comparing Hohokam and Mogollon decorated wares; H. S. Gladwin's suggested changes (handwritten); Redware by period and phase (Pioneer through Classic and unplaced); Plainware by period and phase (Pioneer through Classic); Remarks; Tradeware and the occurrence of intrusive wares; Miscellaneous Pottery Manufactures including human and animal figurines; Other Pottery Manufactures; and References Cited. Items marked with an asterisk (*) have been added by James Officer in his study of the manuscript; pages marked "changes to Snaketown Plates" are also Officer's work and are not part of the original manuscript. Many pages contain handwritten notes on the back bearing no relation to the text. Original plates are found in A-0105 and in Arizona State Museum files. A bound copy is filed under call number 913.791 H689 v.4. Pagination and table of contents were added by J. Barr, Arizona State Museum Library, June 28, 1968. | | | | Repository: | Arizona State Museum | | | | Subjects: | Hohokam culture. | Pottery, Prehistoric -- Arizona -- Tucson Region -- Classification. | Indians of North America -- Arizona -- Antiquities. | Excavations (Archaeology) -- Arizona -- Tucson Region. | | | | Matches:
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| ...Decorated Vessel Forms in the Gila Basin and at Tucson...
...Plainware Vessel Forms in the Gila Basin and at Tucson...
...Prehistoric -- Arizona -- Tucson Region -- Classification....
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| 8 | Author: | unknown | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Hodges Site Materials: Illustrations ead | | | | Date(s): | unknown | | | | Abstract: | A bound volume of 71 sheets of original photographs and drawings illustrating artifact types and house plans from the Hodges Site (AZ AA:12:18 ASM), a Hohokam site in the Tucson Basin, Pima County, Arizona. Materials include 71 numbered plates covering stone objects, shell artifacts, ceramics (including Snaketown, Canada del Oro, Rillito, Rincon, and Tanque Verde Red-on-Brown types), figurines, worked sherds, original drawings of shell and stone objects, and architectural plans for 23 houses. Three unnumbered photographs of three-quarter grooved axes and mauls are also present. Plate numbers were assigned in accordance with I. Kelly's report and J. Officer's revised summary. Assignment of plate numbers and table of contents were added by J. Barr, Arizona State Museum Library, July 3, 1968. | | | | Repository: | Arizona State Museum | | | | Subjects: | Hohokam culture. | Indians of North America -- Arizona -- Antiquities. | Pottery, Prehistoric -- Arizona -- Tucson Region. | Stone implements -- Arizona -- Tucson Region. | Shell ornaments -- Arizona -- Tucson Region. | Excavations (Archaeology) -- Arizona -- Tucson Region. | | | | Matches:
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| ...Archaeology) -- Arizona -- Tucson Region. Hodges...
...Site (Ariz. ) Tucson Basin (Ariz. ) -- Antiquities. Pima...
...a Hohokam site in the Tucson Basin, Pima County, Arizona....
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| 12 | Author: | Kelly, Isabel T. (Isabel Truesdell), 1906-1983. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Correspondence Between Isabel Kelly and Harold Gladwin
November 1936-May 1938 ead | | | | Date(s): | November 1936-May 1938 | | | | Abstract: | A bound volume of 67 pages comprising 26 items of correspondence between Isabel Kelly and Harold Gladwin (HSG) relating to the excavation of the Hodges Site (AZ AA:12:18 ASM), also known as Gravel Pit Ruin, in the Tucson Basin, Arizona. The correspondence spans November 1936 through May 1938 and documents in detail the progress of the excavation, including stratigraphy and ceramic analysis, house types, cremation counts, interpretation of pottery phases, and plans for post-excavation work and report preparation. Also included are a sketch of wall types, a count of decorated sherds from Stratitest C, a 20-page carbon copy of the Progress Report for 1937, and a 5-page carbon copy of sherd counts for Houses 59, 80, 81, and 83. Letters are addressed also to Edith Sangster. A bound volume of this material is filed under call number 913.791 H689 v.6. Table of contents added by Susan Lobo, Arizona State Museum Library, December 8, 1967. | | | | Repository: | Arizona State Museum | | | | Subjects: | Hohokam culture. | Pottery, Prehistoric -- Arizona -- Tucson Region -- Classification. | Excavations (Archaeology) -- Arizona -- Tucson Region. | Archaeologists -- Correspondence. | | | | Matches:
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| ...Prehistoric -- Arizona -- Tucson Region -- Classification....
...Archaeology) -- Arizona -- Tucson Region. Archaeologists --...
...Hodges Site (Ariz. ) Tucson Basin (Ariz. ) -- Antiquities....
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