Accession No
1924.465 D
Description
Incomplete bowl, now in two sherds. Burnished and covered in white slip, it is hemispherical with rounded rim and decorated with black lines and spaced rectangles around the inner rim and diagonal lines on the external rim; with trace of bird feathers in red on the bowl. One sherd reconstructed.
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
1924.465 D
Cultural Affliation
A:shiwi [Zuni]
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (Field collection)
Room 43, upper 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: maa
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1924.465 [A-F]: 'Sherds.'
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 (Found together / assemblage)
See Z 43098, which were found with this idno [c. 1986].
Event Date 1986
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 polychrome bowl material, which has now been added to the Description field.
Event Date 12/2/2025
Author: Clare McKenna
Description (Physical description)
Incomplete bowl, now in two sherds. Burnished and covered in white slip, it is hemispherical with rounded rim and decorated with black lines and spaced rectangles around the inner rim and diagonal lines on the external rim; with trace of bird feathers in red on the bowl. One sherd reconstructed.
Event Date 12/2/2025
Author: Clare McKenna
FM:324576
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