Ceramic: Smudged Black Ware, bowl, AZRU-00001/1018

Smudged Black Ware, bowl (miniature), Accession AZRU-00001, Catalog #1018, Morris FS 4311. Analyzed by Lori Reed 2006. Temper is unknown; not visible. It is likely that the bowl is Aztec Black and produced at Aztec. Bowl is reconstructed with 40% original fragments and 60% unknown paster material. Measurements: 8.5 cm orifice diameter (based on reconstruction), 4.2 cm height. Image AZRU1-1018 A: oblique view of exterior showing shape of bowl. Image AZRU1-1018 B: interior view of bowl. 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.