Accession No
1924.441 E
Description
Incomplete spindle whorl made from a sherd of undecorated grey-buff coloured ware, ground into a disc shape and pierced at the centre with a circular hole; the hole bisected by a transverse break, half of the whorl broken away and missing.
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
1924.441 E; MAA: ?1924.447
Cultural Affliation
A:shiwi [Zuni]
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (Field collection)
Cremation 220. Excavated by Samuel K. Lothrop, Museum of the American Indian, and Louis 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: Zahni Blumenthal
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: Zahni Blumenthal
Description (Physical description)
Incomplete spindle whorl made from a sherd of undecorated grey-buff coloured ware, ground into a disc shape and pierced at the centre with a circular hole; the hole bisected by a transverse break, half of the whorl broken away and missing.
Event Date 7/2/2025
Author: Zahni Blumenthal
FM:324294
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