Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 43100 [A-I]: 'Quantity of sherds, mixed types, including Gila ware, plain cooking vessel type.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Room 31. 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 (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)

Description (Physical description)
Seven sherds of undecorated pottery; irregularly shaped; possibly rough ware.
(I, II and III): three buff sherds; two burnished; one with white accretions; fabric feel is smooth and powdery.
(IV and V): two red sherds, with black patches possibly from differential firing; one is burnished; the other has a yellowish accretion on interior; fabric feel is smooth and powdery.
(VI and VII): two dark grey sherds; first sherd is reconstructed, with broadly five sides, and a light grey interior surface; second sherd is broadly triangular, with a yellowish-buff interior surface; fabric feel is powdery.
Event Date 14/2/2025
Author: Dominique Devadason

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 rough ware material, which has now been added to the Description field.
Event Date 14/2/2025
Author: Dominique Devadason