Accession No
Z 42725 B
Description
Eighteen sherds; at least eight sherds are refitting; one sherd is reconstructed; possibly from a Matsaki shouldered bowl. Simple inturned rim, slightly everted; high carination at neck; possibly shallow body; possibly rounded base. Burnished tan-slipped surface, with applied reddish brown paint; interior surface has linear and diamond motifs; exterior surface has a geometric neck band, possibly interlocking key motifs; smokey black discolouration from differential firing throughout.
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
Z 42725 B
Cultural Affliation
A:shiwi [Zuni]
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Description (Labels & Markings)
Nine of eighteen sherds marked with idno: 'Z 42725'.
Other nine sherds not marked with an idno.
Event Date
Author: Dominique Devadason
Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten note found with Z 42735 A-B: '173 [?]Late polychrome bowl Broken.'
Event Date
Author: Dominique Devadason
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card: 'Pottery bowl, in fragments, polychrome decoration.'
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (Analysis)
Catalogue card reads: 'late' [polychrome decoration].
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Context (Field collection)
Burial 173. 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: 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: Dominique Devadason
Description (Physical description)
Eighteen sherds; at least eight sherds are refitting; one sherd is reconstructed; possibly from a Matsaki shouldered bowl. Simple inturned rim, slightly everted; high carination at neck; possibly shallow body; possibly rounded base. Burnished tan-slipped surface, with applied reddish brown paint; interior surface has linear and diamond motifs; exterior surface has a geometric neck band, possibly interlocking key motifs; smokey black discolouration from differential firing throughout.
Event Date 10/2/2025
Author: Dominique Devadason
FM:324406
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