The written catalog in the Department of Anthropology remains the court of last resort for information regarding artifacts in the Martin Collection, though an electronic database has existed since the late 1970s and forms the basis for the searchable database presented herein. The terms used to catalog artifacts in the 1940s are not necessarily those that are used today (e.g. "dipper" for "ladle"), and the Martin Project has standardized the idiosyncrasies in the "Description" field of the database. Because Martin (1940, 1943) and Martin and Rinaldo (1947) published many of the idiosyncratic terms, the original, written catalog entries are retained in the "Curatorial Remarks" field in the database and are therefore still searchable. Please note that the artifacts listed below may not be present in the collection due to loan, exhibit, exchange, analysis, or loss.

Catalog Book for the 1939 Field Season (Total for Pithouses A, B, C, D, D-1, E, F, G, Surface Room 1, and Test Trenches 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8): 3 abrading stones, 22 bone awls, 1 bead, 13 bowls, 5 bracelets, 17 chipped stone tools (1 chopper, 11 knives, 5 scrapers), 1 concretion (stone ball), 1 cylinder, 1 disc, 1 effigy, 3 groundstone, 4 hammerstone, 12 human remains, 11 jars, 6 knapping tools, 1 ladle, 13 manos, 13 mauls, 1 mortar, 1 needle, 1 ("pitted"?) pebble, 19 pendants, 3 pestles, 6 pipes, 23 polishing stones, 28 projectile points, 3 pieces of quartz, 6993 sherds, 2 bone tubes, 2 pieces of worked bone, 48 worked sherds.

Catalog Book for the 1941 Field Season (Total for Pithouses H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Surface Rooms 2, 3, and Test Trenches 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33): 30 bone awls, 1 bead (though see bracelet), 2 bracelets (one composed of 39 beads), 3 pieces of burned adobe, 3 pieces of chipped stone, 159 chipped stone tools, 3 cores, 4 crystals, 1 die, 1 effigy, 2 faunal remains, 13 hammerstones, 11 human remains, 3 jars, 7 ladles, 2 lid, 6 manos, 3 mauls, 3 needles, 3 pendants, 11 pestles, 1 piece of petrified wood, 21 pieces of pigment, 11 pipes, 29 polishing stones, 46 projectile points, 2 pieces of quartz, 1 shell, 11719 sherds, 4 worked bones, 1 worked clay, 99 worked sherds, 2 worked stone.

Catalog Book for the 1946 Field Season (Total for Pithouses Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, and Test Trenches 34 and 35): 6 bone awls, 92 beads, 31 chipped stone tools, 5 crystals, 1 dice, 1 figurine, 2 jars, 6 ladles, 1 lid, 1 maul, 1 pendant, 26 pieces of pigment, 7 pipes, 15 projectile points, 1 rubbing stone, 22 sherds, 1 worked crystal, 22 worked sherds, 1 worked stone.

Published Record: Site Report for 1939 Season (Martin 1940).

John Rinaldo lists the artifacts recovered from the SU Site in 1939 (Martin1940:34). These data are reproduced in Tables 1a, 1b, and 1c, under the "Published" column. It appears that Rinaldo only included artifacts from Pithouse and Surface Room contexts; artifacts recovered from Test Trenches 1 through 9, which were excavated in 1939, appear not to have been included in this tally.

The second ("Catalogued") column presents the number and kinds of artifacts cataloged by Martin and his colleagues at some point after the 1939 field season. The discrepancies between values in the "Published" and "Catalogued" columns stem from a number of factors. When the value drops significantly, as is the case with the much of the groundstone, it is because many of these artifacts were not returned to the Field Museum and were either reburied or left at the field camp near Reserve, New Mexico. When the number of artifacts increases between the two columns, it is because Rinaldo did not include artifacts from Test Trenches 1 through 9 in his tally, even though these were excavated in 1939. The increase may also be due to artifact breakage.

The third column presents the number of each artifact inventoried by the Martin Project in 1998. This is the number of artifacts that are currently on the shelves in the storerooms of the Field Museum. Some of the specimens are on exhibit, though their numbers are not reflected in the "Inventoried" column. Graphic comparisons of select data categories are present in Figures 1a, 1b, and 1c.

The bulk of the excavated material returned to the Field Museum after the 1939 season consists of small items and formal chipped stone tools, projectile points, worked sherds, and awls. Unusual items such as pendants and crystals were returned to the museum, but heavier items such as metates were not. Groundstone is very poorly represented in this collection, except for small items such as polishing stones, mauls, hammerstones, and a few manos. In total, only about half (54%) of the items recovered in 1939 were returned to the Museum and cataloged. Of those, only about three-quarters (76%) remain in the Museum's collections. Thus, only 41% of the artifacts noted during the 1939 season at SU are currently available for study. It is not clear what happened to the remaining objects, but in cases where numbers are off by one or two, loss seems likely. In other cases, such as manos, projectile points, and polishing stones, artifact loss seems to have been much more systematic.

Provenience

Published

Inventoried

Percent

Pithouse A	1046	1060	101
Pithouse B	1588	1461	92
Pithouse C	1897	811	43
Pithouse D	1354	797	59
Pithouse E	1684	966	57
Pithouse F	789	718	91
Pithouse G	1086	1105	102
Surface House 1	435	72	17
Total, 1939 Season	9879	6990	71

Groundstone

Published

Catalogued

Inventoried

Mano	84	6	6
Rubbing Stone	53	0	0
Metate	34	0	0
Grinding Stone	23	0	0
Mortar	28	0	0
Pestle	48	11	10
Polishing Stone	92	32	14
Hammerstone	45	13	8
Maul	23	3	2
Pitted Pebble	10	0	0
Stone Bowl	8	0	0
Paint Grinding Stone	9	0	0
Pipes	8	11	9
Total	465	76	49