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Aztec West Ruin: Perishable Artifacts and Pottery from Excavations by the American Museum of Natural History
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...


Perishable: Cotton Cloth AMNH 29.0-8083 (2006)
IMAGE Laurie Webster.

Cotton Cloth, Accession AMNH29.0, Catalog #8-83. Morris FS 1685. Analyzed by Laurie Webster, 2006. Plain 1/1 weave cotton cloth. Images: AMNH 29.0-8083A: plain-weave cotton cloth, crumpled. Recovered from Earl Morris' excavation of Room 35-2 , Aztec West Ruin. Morris’ (1928:292) description of Room 35 is brief: “On the floor of Room 35 was a very thin stratum of ashes and refuse, and a black-on-white bowl (29.0-6743) lay in the southeast corner. The door in the south wall has been described...