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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