Accession No

TEMP.03597


Description

Bone point, probably a needle. Elongated straight shaft; tapers to pointed tips; broken through the eye. Broadly yellow-white hue.


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.03597; MAA: ?1924.532


Cultural Affliation

A:shiwi [Zuni]


Material

Bone


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten note on cardboard box lid: 'NEW MEXICO KECHIPAUN BONE IMPLEMENTS. AWL TYPE'.
Event Date
Author: Dominique Devadason


Context (Field collection)
Possibly from Room 91. 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: Imogen Gunn (admin)


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)


Context (Found together / assemblage)
Found, unmarked, stored with 1924.532 A.31-35 and therefore assigned a TEMP number (TEMP.03597). It is possible that it shares the same context as 1924.532, Room 91, which has been tentatively added to the Field Collection.
Event Date 27/2/2025
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


Description (Physical description)
Bone point, probably a needle. Elongated straight shaft; tapers to pointed tips; broken through the eye. Broadly yellow-white hue.
Event Date 27/2/2025
Author: Dominique Devadason


FM:326194

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