Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 42815 [A-C]: 'Variety of sherds with large piece of ladle (?several pieces of Kwakina Glaze) and two bone awls.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Room 74. 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

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)

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 Kwakina Polychrome material, which has been added to the Description field.
Event Date 14/2/2025
Author: Sophie Wardle

Description (Physical description)
Two body sherds of Kwakina Polychrome ware. Burnished red slips on exterior, with linear decoration in black. White interior slips, one very blackened, with geometric decoration in black or green-black glaze.
Event Date 14/2/2025
Author: Sophie Wardle