Accession No

Z 43454 D


Description

Two sherds from Pinnawa glaze polychrome vessels. One sherd has a white slip with black and red decoration on the exterior and interior. The other sherd has a white slip with red, black, and green decoration on exterior.


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 43454 D


Cultural Affliation

A:shiwi [Zuni]


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 43454 [A-E]: 'Group of sherds, early types, including one Heshota-Uthla and two ?Pinnawa and one corrugated. Piece of cowrie shell, a disc with large hole in centre.'
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Field collection)
Room 49, Second Level. 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)
Two sherds from Pinnawa glaze polychrome vessels. One sherd has a white slip with black and red decoration on the exterior and interior. The other sherd has a white slip with red, black, and green decoration on exterior.
Event Date 11/2/2025
Author: J. Dack


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 pinnawa glaze material, which has now been added to the Description field.

Event Date 11/2/2025
Author: J. Dack


FM:324482

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