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1928.9.32

Black pottery rim sherd from a handbuilt vessel, decorated with impressed wavy design. [SM (Verve) 10/2/2016]

1928.9.32

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Collection type
Object
Description
Black pottery rim sherd from a handbuilt vessel, decorated with impressed wavy design. [SM (Verve) 10/2/2016]
Geographical reference
United States of America
Northern America > North America > United States of America
Arizona Coconino County Havasupai Indian Reservation Cataract Canyon
Person
Field collector Beatrice Mary Blackwood
PRM source Beatrice Mary Blackwood
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Southwest Archaeological period: Ancestral Pueblo
Date collected
1926 - 1927
Acquisition information
Donated: 1928
Materials and processes
Material Pottery, Process Coiled, Process Handbuilt, Process Fire-Hardened, Process Impressed
Dimensions
Length: max 70 mm, Width: max 49 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1928.9.32
Research and responses

This assemblage of ceramic sherds (1928.9.30-41) is possibly from the same site as the 2 sherds donated by Blackwood in 1927, which were recorded as from 'a mound near Keams Canyon' (1927.1.5-6). [Dan Hicks 28/08/2012]

Search terms: Pottery, Sherd

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