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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