Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1924.476 [A-F]: 'Sherds of bowls.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Possibly from Burial 104. 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 (Analysis)
Catalogue card in Louis Clarke: 'Excavated before I arrived. On paper with them it says 104A but in S.K. Lothrop' s diary it says no objects were found with Burial 104.'
Event Date 1924
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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 (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)
Three connecting sherds of an incomplete bowl. Small and hemispherical with simple rim, it is painted orange with brown bands of slip around the interior and trace of cross-hatching in the centre; it has spaced pairs of rectangles on the exterior rim and is burnished. Two sherds are reconstructed from smaller pieces.
Event Date 12/2/2025
Author: Clare McKenna