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

Context (Field collection)
Room 84, Top 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: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1924.528 [A-H]: 'Spearhead of stone with concave base, pottery fragments, bit of iron, bone implements and a bit of paint. Bone showing beginnings of making of beads'
Event Date 1924
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)
One sherd from a Concepcion Polychrome vessel. Tan slip with linear decoration in red matte-paint pigment on the exterior.
Event Date 11/2/2025
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones

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