Accession No

Z 1398 D


Description

Four pieces of carbonised corn.


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

Z 1398 D


Cultural Affliation

A:shiwi [Zuni]


Material

Corn


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Context (Display)
Display label reads: 'A piece of mother of pearl, two shell beads & fragments of corn burnt with body.'
Event Date
Author: Clare McKenna


Context (Field collection)
Cremation 166, the Old Pueblo Cremation Cemetery. The ashes of Cremation 166 were stored inside of Z 1398 A with Z 1398 B used as a lid. Z 1398 C and D were found amongst the ashes. 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)
Description for Z 1398 D: 'Pieces of burnt corn.'
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: Zahni Blumenthal


Conservation (Assessment Only)
CON.2025.6151 | Assessment Only
Event Date 28/2/2025
Author: Clare McKenna


Description (Physical description)
Four pieces of carbonised corn.
Event Date 28/2/2025
Author: Clare McKenna


FM:323530

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