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


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