Ceramic: McElmo Black-on-white, bowl, AZRU-00001/831

McElmo Black-on-white, bowl, Accession AZRU-00001, Catalog #831, Morris FS 4580. Analyzed by Lori Reed 2006. Temper is granular igneous rock, suggesting manufacture at Aztec. This bowl is McElmo Black-on-white but has slip-slop over exterior rim -- a more Chaco-Cibola characteristic. Bowl is 100% complete with 40% reconstruction with unknown plaster material. Measurements: 20.5 cm orifice diameter, 9 cm height. Image AZRU1-831 A: Closeup of interior base showing use attrition impacting slip. Image AZRU1-831 B: closeup of interior design. Image AZRU1-831 C: interior view showing design and rim ticking. Image AZRU1-831 D: view of exterior showing shape of bowl and slip-slop over rim edge. 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.