Accession No

TEMP.03439


Description

One rimmed sherd of undecorated brown ware pottery, possibly a jar. Irregular-shaped, partial neck and body sherd; simple everted rim; tapering neck with a wide mouth; possibly globular body. Fabric feel is powdery, with a broadly grey core; exterior surface is brown rough ware, with white inclusions and smoke black patches at rim; black burnished interior surface, with light coloured accretions; fissure cracks throughout sherd.


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

TEMP.03439


Cultural Affliation

A:shiwi [Zuni]


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements

205mm


Events

Context (Related Documents)
Found with three handwritten / display notes:
(1): 'Part of Burial 266'
(2): 'Trench V'
(3): 'Sherd found at foot of skeleton 265'.
Event Date
Author: Dominique Devadason


Context (Field collection)
Found at foot of skeleton 265 (or part of Burial 266?), Trench V. 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


Description (Physical description)
Description of 1924.463: 'Large sherd of small olla'.
Event Date 1924
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


Context (Found together / assemblage)
This sherd was unmarked with an idno, but found bagged with 1924.463. It is unclear whether this object is associated with 1924.463, or was subsequently boxed with the material and has no association with it. It has now been assigned a TEMP number with all the Kechib:wa information entered tentatively until further information comes to light.
Event Date 11/2/2025
Author: Dominique Devadason


Description (Physical description)
One rimmed sherd of undecorated brown ware pottery, possibly a jar. Irregular-shaped, partial neck and body sherd; simple everted rim; tapering neck with a wide mouth; possibly globular body. Fabric feel is powdery, with a broadly grey core; exterior surface is brown rough ware, with white inclusions and smoke black patches at rim; black burnished interior surface, with light coloured accretions; fissure cracks throughout sherd.
Event Date 11/2/2025
Author: Dominique Devadason


FM:324445

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