Pitch Artifacts (Other Keyword)
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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: Pitch Artifacts AMNH 29.0/5340 (2006)
Pitch Artifacts, Accession AMNH29.0, Catalog #5340. Morris FS 90. Analyzed by Laurie Webster, 2006. Five bundles of yucca, cedar, plant fibers enclosing pitch. Images: AMNH 29.0/5340A: five pitch artifacts in box. AMNH 29.0/5340B: pine pitch, some wrapped in yucca leaves. AMNH 29.0/5340C: two chunks of pitch wrapped in remnants of juniper bark. AMNH 29.0/5340D: pitch enclosed in yucca fiber. Additional daubs of pitch on surface. AMNH 29.0/5340E: pitch enclosed in degraded bundle of yucca...