Room 155 (Other Keyword)

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 Lori Reed.

Mesa Verde style corrugated, olla, complete vessel. Accession AZRU-00001 Catalog #919. Morris FS 4187. Analyzed by Lori Reed, 2011. Granular igneous temper indicating local production. Lightly indented coils partly obliterated. Image AZRU1-919A: exterior view. Image AZRU1-919B: exterior view. Recovered from Earl Morris' excavation of Room 155 Aztec West Ruin. Olla was set into Room 155 floor and used for storage. Earl Morris’ description of Room 155 at the time of excavation is as follows. “A...