Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 43405 [A-C]: 'Group of sherds, red on buff and polychrome and plain, coarse ware.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
From Room 36, both levels. 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: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Description (Physical description)
Twenty nine (29) undecorated sherds.
(I): twenty six light grey and buff ware sherds, possibly from one or more vessels, possibly globular with a rounded base.
(II): three mixed sherds, possibly from three distinct vessels; first sherd is burnished brown, with a simple everted rim; second sherd is broadly four-sided, grey ware with one yellow-slipped side; third sherd is broadly triangular, fabric surface has a reddish hue and a grey core.
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