Accession No

TEMP.03444


Description

One Pinnawa Red-on-white sherd. Broadly triangular; fairly flat cross-section; burnished buff-white slipped surface; external surface has applied red paint in two linear motifs, faded; fabric feel is smooth, with a light grey core.


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.03444; R36


Cultural Affliation

A:shiwi [Zuni]


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements

96mm


Events

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: 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)
One Pinnawa Red-on-white sherd. Broadly triangular; fairly flat cross-section; burnished buff-white slipped surface; external surface has applied red paint in two linear motifs, faded; fabric feel is smooth, with a light grey core.
Event Date 11/2/2025
Author: Dominique Devadason


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. This sherd was packed with Pinnawa Red-on-white material, which has now been added to the Description field.
Event Date 11/2/2025
Author: Dominique Devadason


Context (Found together / assemblage)
This unmarked (no idno) sherd was found boxed in MAA.BOX.005699, and bagged with/near the following idnos: 1924.457; 1924.461; Z 42829; Z 42875; Z 42877; Z 42918; Z 43098; Z 43344. It is unclear whether this sherd is part of one of these objects, or was subsequently boxed with the material and has no association with it. It has now been assigned a TEMP number (TEMP.03444) with all the Kechib:wa information entered tentatively until further information comes to light.
Event Date 11/2/2025
Author: maa


FM:324548

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