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Pottery Mound, a short seminar chaired by Polly Schaafsma, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Laboratory of Anthropology, Museum of New Mexico, May 11-12, 2004.

Participants

Michael Adler
Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University,
“Building Identities: Architecture and Cultural Affinities in Pueblo IV
Settlements along the Rio Puerco”

Linda Cordell
University Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder
“Mound at Pottery Mound”

Helen Crotty
Retired
“Western Pueblo Influences at Pottery Mound”

Suzanne Eckert
Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University,
“Understanding the Dynamics of Segregation and Incorporation at Pottery
Mound thru analysis of Glaze-Decorated Bowls”

Kelley Hays-Gilpin
Department of Anthropology, Northern Arizona University,
“People and Pottery: Ceramic Style, Technology, and Exchange of Sikyatki
Style Pottery among the 15th Century Pueblos” or “Pottery Mound, a View
from Antelope Mesa”

Polly Schaafsma, Chair
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Laboratory of Anthropology,
Museum of New Mexico
“The Pottery Mound Murals and Rock Art: The Broader Iconographic Context”

Gwinn Vivian
Arizona State Museum (retired)
“Archaeological Investigations at Pottery Mound: The UNM Field School 1954-1961”

Laurie D. Webster
Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona
“Ritual Costuming at Pottery Mound: The Pottery Mound Textiles in Regional Perspective”

David R. Wilcox
Museum of Northern Arizona
Discussant

Guests

Douglas W. Schwartz, School for Advanced Research

Jean Ballagh, Maxwell Museum, University of New Mexico

David A. Phillips, Jr, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico

Summary

Pottery Mound

In May, Museum of New Mexico, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture research associate Polly Schaafsma convened a two-day seminar about the site of Pottery Mound, an early Pueblo IV site of approximately 500 rooms located on the Rio Puerco west of Los Lunas, New Mexico. Although the site is distinctive because of its outstanding kiva murals and large volume of ceramics, no single work exists that considers Pottery Mound as a whole, causing the site to have been marginalized. “The goal of the seminar was to construct a holistic picture of the site from multiple perspectives and to evaluate it in a regional context, bringing the archaeological picture up to date,” said Schaafsma. Participants included scholars who worked at Pottery Mound recording the murals in the late 1950s and early 1960s.