Object

Accession No

1924.397 C

Description

Incomplete small duck pot. Formed of buff ware, with an asymmetrical body that projects outwards more on one side; a wide base and the scar of a small strap handle on one side. A separated everted rim sherd suggests the rim is uneven. Reconstructed from multiple sherds.

Place

Americas; North America; United States of America; New Mexico; Cibola County; Zuni Reservation; Kechib:wa [Kechipauan]

Period

Pueblo IV early Pueblo V c 1425-1680

Source

Clarke, Louis Colville Gray [excavator and donor]; Lothrop, Samuel Kirkland [excavator]

Department

Arch

Reference Numbers

1924.397 C

Cultural Affliation

A:shiwi [Zuni]

Material

Ceramic; Pottery

Local Term

Measurements

87mm

Events

Context (Field collection)
Trench I, burial 127 of a child. Excavated by Samuel K. Lothrop, Museum of the American Indian, and Louis Clarke, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, as part of the Louis C.G. Clarke Kechipauan Expedition, 19 June – 1 September 1923. See archive (FR5/1/2 – FR5/1/7) and photo collection for excavation notes, drawings, site plans, photographs, etc.
Event Date 1923
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Fragmentary miniature duck pot.

Event Date 1924
Author: maa

Context (References)
Bushnell, G.H.S. (1955). ‘Some Pueblo IV pottery types from Kechipawan, New Mexico, U.S.A.’ Anais do XXXI Congresso Internacional de Americanistas, 1954, vol. 2. Sao Paulo: Editora Anhembi. pp. 657-665.
Event Date 1955
Author: Genevieve Holt

Description (Physical description)
Incomplete small duck pot. Formed of buff ware, with an asymmetrical body that projects outwards more on one side; a wide base and the scar of a small strap handle on one side. A separated everted rim sherd suggests the rim is uneven. Reconstructed from multiple sherds.
Event Date 23/1/2025
Author: Clare McKenna

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