Accession No

TEMP.03456


Description

Two undecorated grey ware sherds, partially burnished. (I) undecorated rough ware sherd, dark grey; broadly four-sided; fairly flat cross-section; smooth fabric feel. (II) undecorated sherd, light grey; broadly trapezoidal; fairly flat cross-section; exterior surface is possibly white-slipped, with smokey black patches from differential firing; interior surface is possibly buff-slipped; smooth fabric feel.


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

TEMP.03456


Cultural Affliation

A:shiwi [Zuni]


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Description (Physical description)
Description of Z 42727: 'Sherds of olla, red on buff'
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Field collection)
From Room 15. Excavated by Samuel K. Lothrop, Museum of the American Indian, and Louis 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: Dominique Devadason


Description (Physical description)
Two undecorated grey ware sherds, partially burnished. (I) undecorated rough ware sherd, dark grey; broadly four-sided; fairly flat cross-section; smooth fabric feel. (II) undecorated sherd, light grey; broadly trapezoidal; fairly flat cross-section; exterior surface is possibly white-slipped, with smokey black patches from differential firing; interior surface is possibly buff-slipped; smooth fabric feel.
Event Date 12/2/2025
Author: Dominique Devadason


FM:324619

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