Knotted Cordage (Other Keyword)

PROJECT Uploaded by: Lori Reed

This project includes images of ceramic and perishable artifacts from Accession AZRU-61 recovered during the 1984 Archeological Investigations for Modifications to West Ruin Drainage project. Excavations associated with the project were under the direction of Jim Trott of the National Park Service, Santa Fe support office. In addition to trench excavations in the Aztec West plaza, several rooms (225, 221, 222, 223, 129, 158(2), 204, 232, and 255) in the north and west wings of the great house...

PROJECT Lori Reed. Laurie Webster.

Digital images of pottery and perishable items recovered from Earl Morris' excavations of Aztec West Ruin between 1916 and 1922. Although Morris' excavations at Aztec were extensive, his analysis and descriptions of the artifact assemblage were cursory. In 2003, Laurie Webster and Lori Stephens Reed began systematic analysis, documentation, and digital imaging of pottery and perishables from Morris' Aztec West Ruin collections housed at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY and...

IMAGE Laurie Webster.

Knotted Cordage, Accession AMNH29.0, Catalog #5279 and 5278. Morris FS 28 and 27. Analyzed by Laurie Webster, 2006. Cordage, 2Z-S and 2(2S-Z)S, knotted for feathers. Image: AMNH 29.0/5279_5278A: cords for feather attachment, 5278 has remnants of feathers. Recovered from Earl Morris' excavation of Room 122-2, Aztec West Ruin. Morris (1928:357) indicates that “Room 122-2 is situated above Room 112. Refuse, more than half of its bulk composed of vegetable and other perishable substances, had been...

IMAGE Laurie Webster.

Knotted Cordage, Accession AZRU-00061, Catalog #8207. FS 170. Analyzed by Laurie Webster, 2006. Knotted yucca cordage, both probably from same cordage strand. Measurements: 5.0 L, 1.0 W CM (larger). Image: AZRU61-8207 A: knotted cordage. Recovered from Room 225, 160-180 CM bel 2nd datum, Aztec West Ruin.