Object

Accession No

TEMP.03327

Description

One sherd with buff fabric and white slipped exterior, decorated with black painted linear design in a leaf-like motif. Reconstructed with three smaller pieces.

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

TEMP.03327; MAA: ?1924.358 [incorrect no.]; ?1924.350 [incorrect no.]; ?1924.360 [incorrect no.]; ?1924.368 [incorrect no.]

Cultural Affliation

A:shiwi [Zuni]

Material

Ceramic; Pottery

Local Term

Measurements

Events

Description (Labels & Markings)
Sherd marked '24.358' [or '24.350', '24.360', '24.368] in black ink.
Event Date
Author: Jodi Zhang

Context (Field collection)
Possibly 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: Jodi Zhang

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: Jodi Zhang

Context (Amendments / updates)
This sherd was found with other sherds from Kechib:wa collected during the 1923 Louis C.G. Clarke Kechipauan Expedition. It is marked marked with a MAA Idno, but the number does not match anything in the database or register. Therefore this sherds is now assigned a Temp No.
Event Date 28/1/2025
Author: Jodi Zhang

Description (Physical description)
One sherd with buff fabric and white slipped exterior, decorated with black painted linear design in a leaf-like motif. Reconstructed with three smaller pieces.
Event Date 28/1/2025
Author: Jodi Zhang

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