Turkey Cave is a Pueblo I-Pueblo II period (ca. 750-1100 CE) cliff dwelling located near Kiet Siel, in Tsegi Canyon. Turkey Cave was briefly tested by a University of Arizona expedition directed by Byron Cummings about 1920 and then again by Harold S. Gladwin for the Gila Pueblo Foundation in 1929. Jar #12924 was excavated by Cummings and jar #AT-76-19-1 was excavated by Gladwin.

In the early 1930s, Gladwin transferred the jar he excavated to Grand Canyon National Park, where it was seen in storage many years later by Dr. Emil W. Haury. Dr. Haury immediately recognized the jar and inquired about the possibility of the jar being transferred to the Arizona State Museum to be reunited with its companion piece. The National Park Service agreed and in 1976 the jar was placed on long-term loan to the Museum. The full story of these two jars is related by Dr. Haury in his 1988 history of the Gila Pueblo Foundation.