Perishable: Cotton Sack AMNH 29.0/5284

Summary

Cotton Sack, Accession AMNH29.0, Catalog #5284. Morris FS-33. Analyzed by Laurie Webster, 2006. Three-colored, braided-cotton sack fragment with drum string. Images: AMNH 29.0/5284A: twill-tapestry fragment gathered at one end. AMNH 29.0/5284B: close-up showing three-color design 1. AMNH 29.0/5284C: close-up showing three-color design 2. AMNH 29.0/5284D: close-up showing three-color design 3. AMNH 29.0/5284E: close-up of selvage at right. AMNH 29.0/5284F: reverse face of twill-tapestry fragment. AMNH 29.0/5284G: twill-tapestry fragment gathered at one end 2. AMNH 29.0/5284H: close-up showing twill weave structure and design. AMNH 29.0/5284I: close-up showing three-color design 4. AMNH 29.0/5284J: close-up showing three-color design 5. AMNH 29.0/5284K: close-up showing three-color design 6. 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 thrown in through the door connecting with the room above Room 110, forming a fan-shaped deposit, 2 feet deep, beneath the door and dwindling out in the northeast and northwest corners. Being in an outer tier, the slope above Room 122-2, was very steep, providing excellent drainage, which condition, together with the air space beneath the floor, had excluded all moisture from the refuse. This mass, of Chaco age, contained a fine assortment of textiles and other perishable artifacts (29.0-5251-5400), such as in most places is entirely decayed. The conspicuous components of the deposit, other than manufactured articles, were shreds of cedarbark, cornhusks, and cobs, strips of yucca leaf in great abundance, excrement, ashes, and floor sweepings.”

Reference: Earl Morris, 1928, Notes on Excavations in the Aztec Ruin, Volume XXVI, Part V, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, New York.

Cite this Record

Perishable: Cotton Sack AMNH 29.0/5284. Laurie Webster. 2006. Aztec Ruins National Monument ( tDAR id: 373487) ; doi:10.6067/XCV828064W

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 1110 to 1140 (Late Chacoan)

Calendar Date: 1140 to 1280 (Post-Chacoan)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -108.038; min lat: 36.803 ; max long: -107.955; max lat: 36.861 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Gary Brown

Contributor(s): Lori Reed; Joel Gamache; Anne Grulich; Aztec Ruins National Monument, Aztec, NM; Aztec Ruins National Monument

Principal Investigator(s): Laurie Webster

Repository(s): American Museum of Natural History

Notes

Rights & Attribution: Artifact was collected from Aztec West Ruin excavations by Earl Morris between 1916 and 1922. Morris' excavations were sponsored and funded by the American Museum of Natural History, New York.

Rights & Attribution: High resolution images of the item are archived and available to researchers through the National Park Service, Aztec Ruins National Monument.

Rights & Attribution: Publication or use of the image is restricted; permission may be obtained through consultation with American Museum of Natural History and Aztec Ruins National Monument.

Source Collections

Original Item: American Museum of Natural History, New York

Image: NPS, Aztec Ruins National Monument, Aztec, New Mexico

Related Comparative Collections

Aztec Ruins Collections housed at Hibben Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Aztec Ruins Collections housed at American Museum of Natural History, New York

Aztec Ruins Collections housed at Aztec Ruins National Monument, Aztec, New Mexico

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