Accession No
1924.522 E
Description
Incomplete spindle whorl made from a sherd red slipped ware ground into a flat disc and pierced at the centre with a circular hole; the hole now bisected by a transverse break with half of the whorl broken off and missing.
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
1924.522 E
Cultural Affliation
A:shiwi [Zuni]
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (Field collection)
Room 65, Upper Level. 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: Lily Stancliffe
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1924.522 [A-B]: 'Two bone implements, quartzite spear head, point missing, stones and beads.'
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: maa
Description (Physical description)
Incomplete spindle whorl made from a sherd red slipped ware ground into a flat disc and pierced at the centre with a circular hole; the hole now bisected by a transverse break with half of the whorl broken off and missing.
Event Date 17/2/2025
Author: Zahni Blumenthal
FM:324837
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