Accession No
TEMP.03402
Description
Five sherds of Kwakina Polychrome ware, including one direct rim sherd from a bowl. Burnished external red or red-orange slips, some with linear decoration painted in white. The rim sherd also has red-orange slip on the top of the rim. White internal slips with geometric decoration in black or green-black glaze. One also features red in the internal decoration.
Place
Americas; North America; USA; 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.03402; MAA: ?1924.585 A.2; ?1924.479 A; ?1924.479 B
Cultural Affliation
A:shiwi [Zuni]
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten label found stored in bag with 1924.479 [A-B], 1924.585 A.2, and TEMP.03402: 'Kwakina Glaze Polychrome'.
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle
Context (Field collection)
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: Sophie Wardle
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: Sophie Wardle
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 Kwakina Polychrome material, which has been added to the Description field.
Event Date 17/2/2025
Author: Sophie Wardle
Description (Physical description)
Five sherds of Kwakina Polychrome ware, including one direct rim sherd from a bowl. Burnished external red or red-orange slips, some with linear decoration painted in white. The rim sherd also has red-orange slip on the top of the rim. White internal slips with geometric decoration in black or green-black glaze. One also features red in the internal decoration.
Event Date 17/2/2025
Author: Sophie Wardle
Context (Found together / assemblage)
These unmarked sherds were found stored in a bag with 1924.585 A.2 and 1924.479 [A-B]. Given their lack of markings, they were assigned a new TEMP number. Most of the fields of this new record have been tentatively populated using the information from those records, with more specific excavation context being removed.
Event Date 17/2/2025
Author: Sophie Wardle
FM:324822
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