Accession No

1924.369 B


Description

Seventeen sherds from a polychrome bowl with a simple rim; some of which can be refitted. Decoration is badly worn, but appears to include a pale slip with linear design painted beneath the rim in brown or black and orange-red. Perhaps Matsaki Polychrome.


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

1924.369 B


Cultural Affliation

A:shiwi [Zuni]


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten note found with 1924.369 [B-C]: 'Sherds with burial 203.'
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle


Description (Physical description)
Excavation archive (FR5/1/3): 'Some sherds from a bowl. Decoration weathered.'
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Field collection)
With Cremation 203. 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


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: Sophie Wardle


Context (Analysis)
Analysis in G.H.S. Bushnell's hand in excavation archive (FR5/1/3): 'I now think it is Matsaki Polychrome, which normally succeeds the Red-on-Buff stage'.
Event Date 1959
Author: Sophie Wardle


Description (Physical description)
Seventeen sherds from a polychrome bowl with a simple rim; some of which can be refitted. Decoration is badly worn, but appears to include a pale slip with linear design painted beneath the rim in brown or black and orange-red. Perhaps Matsaki Polychrome.
Event Date 23/1/2025
Author: Sophie Wardle


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