Accession No
1924.461 E
Description
Six Heshotauthla Polychrome sherds; one rim, the rest are body sherds. Red slip with geometric motifs in black glaze on the interior, some with white line designs on the exterior.
Place
Americas; North America; USA; 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
Cultural Affliation
A:shiwi [Zuni]
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (Analysis)
One sherd has a label that reads: 'WINGATE. BLACK ON RED.'
Event Date
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones
Context (Field collection)
General dig. 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: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
Accession Register for 1924.461 [A-V]: 'Large box of big sherds'
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: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
Six Heshotauthla Polychrome sherds; one rim, the rest are body sherds. Red slip with geometric motifs in black glaze on the interior, some with white line designs on the exterior.
Event Date 31/1/2025
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones
Context (Amendments / updates)
When the Kechib:wa collection was packed for storage in c 1986 the pottery was assessed by museum staff and boxed according to type. These sherds were packed with Heshota-Uthla Glaze Polychrome material, which has now been added to the Description field.
Event Date 31/1/2025
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones
FM:323848
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