Accession No

1924.516 A


Description

Blade made from flaked brown coloured flint with a small area of cortex on the dorsal face and minor retouching to both edges.


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

1924.516 A


Cultural Affliation

A:shiwi [Zuni]


Material

Stone; Flint


Local Term


Measurements

49mm


Events

Context (Field collection)
Room 47. Excavated by Samuel K. Lothrop, Museum of the American Indian, and Louis C.G. 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)
Catalogue card for 1924.516 [A-E]: 'Pottery bell (mended) pottery head of animal, black and white period - probably handle of vase, pottery discs, bone object.'
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: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Description (Physical description)
Blade made from flaked brown coloured flint with a small area of cortex on the dorsal face and minor retouching to both edges.
Event Date 27/1/2025
Author: Zahni Blumenthal


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