Ceramic: Painted black-on-white, effigy appendage, AZRU-00008/1514

Painted black-on-white, effigy appendage (paw or hand), Accession AZRU-00008, Catalog #1514, Morris FS 4315. Analyzed by Lori Reed 2006. Temper is sand suggesting production in the Chaco Cibola region. The paint is mineral indicating it is from an Escavada or Gallup Black-on-white effigy. Appendage represents only roughly 3% of effigy. Image AZRU8-1514 A: view of appendage showing shape of paw and painted design. Image AZRU8-1514 B: side view of appendage showing shape of paw and painted design. 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.