Accession No
1924.581 B
Description
37 shells. Eleven are gastropod including three biconic; seven bivalve; two rounded, one with pearlescence and 16 fragments.
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
1924.581 B
Cultural Affliation
A:shiwi [Zuni]
Material
Shell
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten note with object reads: 'General Dig. Types of shells.'
Event Date
Author: Clare McKenna
Context (Field collection)
General Digging. 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
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1924.581 [A-C]: 'Box of shells and bone implements of many types.'
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: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
37 shells. Eleven are gastropod including three biconic; seven bivalve; two rounded, one with pearlescence and 16 fragments.
Event Date 27/2/2025
Author: Clare McKenna
FM:325286
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