Context (Display)
Display labels found with this material read: ‘Concepcion Polychrome.’
Event Date
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones

Context (Field collection)
Room 34. 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

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1924.499 [A-D]: 'Bone implement, probably for weaving, ground pottery fragments.'
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: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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 Concepcion Polychrome material, which has now been added to the Description field.

Event Date 11/2/2025
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones

Description (Physical description)
One rim sherd with ground edges from a Concepcion Polychrome vessel. Tan slip with two lines in brown matte-paint pigment on the exterior.
Event Date 11/2/2025
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones

Context (Analysis)
The ground edges in this sherd might indicate that it was used as a piece of a Zuni game, as seen in other examples from this collection (see 1924.552).
Event Date 11/2/2025
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones