Description (Labels & Markings)
Rectangular paper label adhered to object reading in black ink: 'From Ancient Indian Cave Dwellings 8 miles North of Flagstaff Arizona. T.McK.H.'
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Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Description (Labels & Markings)
Affixed is label in McKenny Hughes' hand, reading '[illegible] Indian Cave Dwellings 8 miles North of [Fla]gstaff Arizona. T.McK.H.'
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Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Labels & Markings)
Affixed to the object is what appears to be a circular, red baggage label.
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Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Related Documents)
There is an identical catalogue card in the Archaeology index.
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Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Field collection)
According to McKenny Hughes' account (1893), this was found in a 'village [that] consisted of caves, excavated in the top of a steep hill of lava, under the tower San Francisco Mountain... The cave-dwellings occurred on the top of a small hill of rather scoriaceous lava, about eight miles north of Flagstaff and half-a-mile east of the trail to Cedar Ranche' (p. 23-24).
Event Date 1891
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
Collected by Thomas McKenny Hughes from ancient Indian cave dwellings, eight miles north of Flagstaff, Arizona, in 1891.
Event Date 1891
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (References)
Hughes, T. M. (1893). 'On Objects from Ancient Indian Cave-Dwellings and Cliff-Dwellings in Arizona.' Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 8(1). pp. 23-28.
Event Date 1893
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1947.534 A-B: 'Fragments of a plain, open ended "metate" (stones for grinding corn on), made of blocks of vesicular lava.'
Event Date 1947
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for 1947.534 A-B: 'Fragments of 2 metates.'
Event Date 1947
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Analysis)
Katherine Leckie studied the McKenny-Hughes collection, as part of her Crowther-Beynon Grant, in 2015.
Event Date 2015
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
One large fragment of a plain, open ended metate made from vesicular volcanic rock. The preserved end is slightly rounded, the grinding surface is concave with curved sides.
Event Date 25/3/2025
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung