Ceramic: McElmo Black-on-white, bowl (fragment), AZRU-00008/4988

McElmo Black-on-white (Early style), bowl (fragmentary), Accession AZRU-00008, Catalog #4988, Morris FS 4292. Analyzed by Lori Reed 2006. Granular igenous rock temper and low fired silty paste suggest the bowl was manufactured at Aztec. Organic paint and Dogoszhi style design suggests that the bowl is mostly likely transitional between Mancos and McElmo. Bowl fragments represent only about 50% of vessel. Measurements: 26 cm orifice diameter, 12.3 cm height. Image AZRU8-4988 A: bowl fragment showing painted design design on interior surface. Recovered from Earl Morris excavation of Kiva Q, Aztec West Ruin. Morris (1924:257) mentions Kiva Q as a comparison to kivas in the West Ruin Annex: "Kiva A.2 is of a different type, but from its similarity to Kiva Q in the main ruin, which is of known Chaco age, it must be considered
contemporaneous with Kiva A.1." No other published description of Kiva Q is available. Reference: Earl Morris, 1924, Burials in the Aztec Ruin, Volume XXVI, Part III, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, New York.