Old Collections, New Questions: Information on Plains-Pueblo Interaction and Variations in Style from Pecos Pueblo Pipes

2016 Southwest Symposium Poster. This poster presentation centers on what can be learned about Plains-Pueblo interaction and changes in community life through time from the examination of variations in style of a particular artifact class, the smoking pipe. This presentation specifically will outline the preliminary results of analysis of the pipes from the A.V. Kidder and National Park Service collections housed at Pecos Pueblo in New Mexico. 855 pipe fragments were analyzed, noting form, material, design, and use wear, and then these artifacts were compared to common Plains and Pueblo pipe styles. Archival and National Park Service database records were then used to obtain provenience information and approximate dates of deposition for the pipes in order to assess spatial and temporal patterns in Plains-style and Pueblo-style pipe deposition. This poster will then situate the stylistic, material, and spatial results from Pecos in the context of pipe style and material distribution across the Northern Rio Grande pueblos at which pipes have been excavated.