Gray Corrugated Pottery from Awatovi and Other Jeddito Sites in Northeastern Arizona

Description

Authors: Gifford, James C. (1927-1973) and Smith, Watson (1897-1993)

Publisher: Peabody Museum

Pub Date: 1978

Binding: Paperback

Condition: 5 copies.  Copy 1 (BRU): Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears.  Upper front cover corner has approx. 2″ x 1/4″ fold.  Does not affect any text.  Lower front cover corner has approx. 1/4″ fold, affecting first 11 pages of Introduction.  Spine sun-faded (I’m not quite sure if the front and rear covers were supposed to be the lime green of the spine, or if the lime green spine is supposed to be the gray of the covers.  Either one or the other is sun-faded.).  Upper rear cover corner has an area that has been delaminated, scuffed.  Some edge and corner wear.  Copies 2-3 (LC): Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  All copies appear unused.  Copy 4 (LC21): Fair to Good.  Binding tight.  No tears.  Upper front cover corner has approx. 1″ bend.  Sun-fading to bottom edge front cover.   Copy 5 (LC21): Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds. Appears unused.

Notes:  Papers of the Peabody Museum Volume 69.  Reports of the Awatovi Expedition Report No. 10.  Gifford died before this report could be published but it was “completed” by Smith and Gifford’s wife Carol.  The genesis of this report came from the Peabody’s Awatovi excavations from 1935-1939.  Gifford began working on the report in the mid-1960s while at the Peabody Museum, but it remained uncompleted at the time of his death.  “Corrugation”, i.e. building a pot in continuous coils, is probably the oldest method of Pueblo pottery making.