Pottery Mound NM Field Artists '60/'61

by Paul T. Kay Oct.28, 2006
with THANKS to Iris G. Stuart (deceased) and Judith Andahl
A COLOR PHOTO ESSAY OF SOME OF THE FOLKS WORKING AS
ARTISTS AT THE 14TH CENTURY POTTERY MOUND SITE,
NEW MEXICO USA
SEASONS 1960 & '61
AS RECORDED ON FILM BY RUSSELL L. SCHORSCH (DECEASED)
Pottery Mound Excavation Supervisor
Department of Anthropology-University of New Mexico
FEATURING
SELECTED FIELD PHOTOS AND FIELD DRAWINGS
THAT DEMONSTRATE THE HIGH DEGREE OF
DEVELOPMENT OF FIGURATIVE ILLUSTRATIONS
DONE IN LIVING COLOR BY THE 'ANCIENTS'
...JUST SOME SAMPLES AS EXAMPLES
Dedicated to the remnants of mankind's undertakings
to define themselves...Paul T. Kay 2006

DENNIS TEDLOCK IN A KIVA WITH HIS 'FIELD STUDIO'
1960 season
original photo by R. Schorsch

PHOTO OF YOURS TRULY-PTK
POSED BY"'BROWNIE" HIBBEN
AT POTTERY MOUND '61
this in the book I AM HERE
Museum of New Mexico Press
one can see the same tablet to my right
in the photo below

That's PTK-center right with back to viewer-digging in a Kiva-
note the same field tablet against wall.
this photo presumably taken by "Brownie" and is in Frank Hibben's-
Kiva Art of the Anasazi
NOTE THE GLORYOUS LANDSCAPE!
Stan Bussey at the transit.
1961 season

Pat Bryan (Vivian)
Arizona
drawing

Pat Bryan (Vivian)
posing

Stan Bussey (deceased)

James C. Faris
'the scraper'
retired
New Mexico

Theodore "Ted" R. Frisbie
retired-Illinois

Maria Jorrin-Martin
(deceased)
with Loki

Chuck McDougal
...the early part of the day
'the scraper'
now in Nepal protecting Tigers

Chuck McDougal
...as the day warmed
...NOTE "The Man On The Moon"

Milton Newton (deceased)

Milton Newton
telling us what mural layer he is working on

Christopher (Chris) M. Pierce
retired in Kentucky

Rattlesnake (deceased)

Russell Schorsch (deceased) on left
Milton Newton (deceased) on right

Housework Helpers

"Elusive Sylvia"
(deceased??)

Silvia demonstating elusiveness

Dennis Tedlock-retired
New Mexico

Ron Provencher field school super- retired Washington State, on left
Aija Van Patten-artist-retired Oregon , on right

FROM LEFT-Newton, Faris, Loki, Provencher, Bussey and Schorsch

GENERAL VIEW OF AND FROM
POTTERY MOUND
NEW MEXICO
...that's the Schorsch trusted carryall

FARIS TEDLOCK FRISBIE JORRIN BUSSEY BRYAN WELCH
SOME OF THE 1960
CREW
waiting while Russ gets the rattlesnake out of the kiva

POTTERY MOUND looking south from across
the Rio Puerco
the '60 season ramada is behind vehicles

The Rio Puerco with water
looking NW towards Mt. Taylor
Autumn 1960

some of the crew assisting
mother nature
at cut-bank work
UP STREAM FROM THE SITE

THE BIG SPLASH
An actual cut-bank process after the big rain
when the 'river came down'
...the high bank under foot is at lower right
corner.
The next photo shows it all.

after the gulley washer
that brought the river down
that took out some of the
bank...

...TRYING TO GET HOME !!

THE WAY HOME...

Playing in the river (sludge) a couple days later
when the river came down from The Jemez.

IT DOES CLEAR UP...

...AND THEN DRIES UP

these same events occurred
in 1961 and every year since!!

THIS EVENT AND OTHERS LIKE IT PROVIDED THE RATIONALE FOR
THE SALVAGE EXCAVATION APPROACH AS IT ENCROACHED
UPON THE MOUND SITE...

THE FOLLOWING FROM THE '60 SEASON
KIVA 7, KIVA 8, KIVA 6

JAMES C. FARIS ala MILLET

I LACK PEOPLE
PHOTOS FOR SOME OF
THE '60 CREW

Bryan and Bussey

Schnickelfritz

...and then it's very dry
again

LOKI

Bussey and Vivian

Vivian-------Pierce==========

Bussey and Bryan collaboration

and
the 1961 season
K8/9, K9, K10, K12, K16
the rain, river and crew events pretty much like '60...

P.T. KAY

P.T.KAY

T.R.FRISBIE

P.T.KAY

C. WELCH

T.R. FRISBIE

C. PIERCE

BUSSEY & PIERCE

C. PIERCE

T. FRISBIE

S. BUSSEY

more samples as examples...

as an EXTRA addition to this data
CLICK HERE
for some mural interpretations by P.T. Kay
"ANCIENT VOICES-murals and pots speak"

THE RIO PUERCO-dry showing POTTERY MOUND
USGS AERIAL PHOTO-1949
the cut-bank has now intruded into the area marked PM

water
tank

Images of most field drawing photos & in situ murals from a Harvard data base.

T.R. FRISBIE

C. PIERCE

C. WELCH

THESE
DRAWINGS
REPRESENT
THE FULL
IMAGES ON
ONE WALL
LAYER
EACH
about 5' X 10'

C. WELCH

T. FRISBIE

FRISBIE

PIERCE

PEREA

C. WELCH

THE END FOR NOW...

HEAVY DUTY ARCHAEOLOGY
the one exception to classical archaeology
at Pottery Mound

A TYPICAL POTTERY MOUND KIVA
from KIVA ART OF THE ANASAZI-Hibben

A HAND DUG TRENCH
SHOWING THE COMPLEX
FEATURES
SIMILAR TO THOSE
RECORDED BELOW...

A B/W COMPUTER GENERATED SECTION #6 OF THE PROFILE REVEALED BY
THE BULLDOZER TRENCH.
THE ORIGINAL COLOR FIELD DRAWINGS WERE DONE BY JAMES FARIS.
THE COMPUTER VERSION DONE BY MIKE ADLER-SMU.
TOTAL TRENCH LENGTH ABOUT 300 FEET.

THE BULLDOZER.

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LIZ LAPOVSKY

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WELCH
3 panels

NEWTON

PIERCE

PROVENCHER'S
"DRAGON FLY"
plaque

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P. T. KAY
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Van Patten

Ted recently authored
THE KIVA CREW AT POTTERY MOUND: 1960-1961
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW MEXICO- ANNUAL NO. 33:2007
This web page is referenced frequently so the reader can view
the cited field artists/drawings etc. in color.

OF NOTE
Ted Frisbie recently authored
THE KIVA CREW AT POTTERY MOUND: 1960-1961
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW MEXICO- ANNUAL NO. 33:2007
This web page is referenced frequently so the reader can view
the cited field artists/drawings etc. in color.

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