Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 43449 [A-C]: 'Sherds, plain and one decorated, late.'
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)

Description (Physical description)
Late polychrome rim sherd of a shouldered vessel. Painted white on both faces with three thick brown lines on the exterior rim with burnishing below, and paler linear decoration on the interior shoulder.
Event Date 11/2/2025
Author: Clare McKenna

Context (Amendments / updates)
Similar pattern to Z 43448 B.
Event Date 11/2/2025
Author: Clare McKenna

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 late polychrome material, which has now been added to the Description field.
Event Date 11/2/2025
Author: Clare McKenna