Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 43438 [A-G]: 'Sherds, cooking vessels and a few Gila and one or two polychrome (red on white) (white on red) and plain (Matsaki).'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
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)

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. This sherd was packed with Kwakina Polychrome material, which has been added tentatively to the Description field.
Event Date 7/2/2025
Author: Sophie Wardle

Description (Physical description)
Body sherd, possibly Kwakina Polychrome ware. Red slip on exterior. Pale interior slip with painted black linear decoration. Burnished.
Event Date 7/2/2025
Author: Sophie Wardle