Context (Field collection)
Room 2. 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 1924.460 [A-F]: 'Large box of big 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 (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)
Four late polychrome rim sherds, of which two connect. The two connecting sherds are shouldered with tapering base and everted rim, with cream slip and brown slip decoration of bands, lines and triangles on the interior and lines on the external rim. One is orange with everted rim, small spout with open top and brown slip lines in diagonal on the exterior and horizontal bands on the interior. The fourth sherd is large with four vertical lines on the exterior and shapes of red and dark purple on the interior, burnished.
Event Date 12/2/2025
Author: Clare McKenna