Accession No

Z 43431 C


Description

Ten adjoining sherds of a Matsaki vessel. Shouldered vessel with upper body tapering to a simple rim; it is painted white on both faces. Decorated with thick red bands below the rim and in sections around the upper body, it depicts rounded pairs of feathers in a dark slip with thin red lines like tufts. The lower half is burnished.


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 43431 C


Cultural Affliation

A:shiwi [Zuni]


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 43431 [A-H]: 'Sherds, polychrome, some Matsaki and others (Hawikuh and Pinnawa red on white), bag of bones.'
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Field collection)
Room 31. 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)


Description (Physical description)
Ten adjoining sherds of a Matsaki vessel. Shouldered vessel with upper body tapering to a simple rim; it is painted white on both faces. Decorated with thick red bands below the rim and in sections around the upper body, it depicts rounded pairs of feathers in a dark slip with thin red lines like tufts. The lower half is burnished.
Event Date 10/2/2025
Author: Clare McKenna


FM:324414

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