The Cottonwood Pueblo Collection

About the Collection

At the site is Basketmaker artifacts in a well-preserved state, including cured deer skin, baskets, and two distinct styles of yucca-leaf footwear. Their most significant find was a bundle positioned thirty inches beneath the surface in a garbage heap. Constructed out of strips of juniper bark and divided yucca leaves, the oval-shaped bundle housed fourteen complete ears of corn and almost a gallon of dehusked corn. Given the immaculate state of the corn, Hurst theorized that it was likely seed corn.


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