Accession No
Z 43452 B
Description
Piece of blackened wood, possibly the headplate of a comb. Flat at one end and broken off at the other; straight sides expand from flat end towards the broken off end; straight groove all the way across one face just in from the flat end; part of a raised, squared off section just before break with incised cross; other face is flat.
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 43452 B
Cultural Affliation
A:shiwi [Zuni]
Material
Stone; Wood
Local Term
Measurements
50mm
Events
Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 43452 [A-B]: 'Collection of stone arrow shaft straighteners, pebbles, concretions, one piece of ?burnt ?wood and a fragment of petrified wood.'
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (Field collection)
General Digging, Trench V. 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: Clare McKenna
Description (Physical description)
Piece of blackened wood, possibly the headplate of a comb. Flat at one end and broken off at the other; straight sides expand from flat end towards the broken off end; straight groove all the way across one face just in from the flat end; part of a raised, squared off section just before break with incised cross; other face is flat.
Event Date 19/2/2025
Author: Nora J. Klages-Miller
FM:323626
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