Accession No

Z 43370 E


Description

Partial Matsaki polychrome bowl; with multiple bands of lined decoration around external rim, and two bands of applied decoration around inner shoulder. Inner base of bowl also has geometric applied decoration. Rounded everted rim, wide mouth, rounded shallow body, rounded base. Bowl in sherds, some adhered together, now in many pieces, some sherds absent.


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 43370 E


Cultural Affliation

A:shiwi [Zuni]


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 43370 [A-F]: 'Sherds of Matsaki bowl and corrugated and several red ware and other unidentified sherds.'
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Field collection)
Room 25. 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)
Partial Matsaki polychrome bowl; with multiple bands of lined decoration around external rim, and two bands of applied decoration around inner shoulder. Inner base of bowl also has geometric applied decoration. Rounded everted rim, wide mouth, rounded shallow body, rounded base. Bowl in sherds, some adhered together, now in many pieces, some sherds absent.
Event Date 11/2/2025
Author: Genevieve Holt


FM:324568

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