Perishable: Cotton Cloth AMNH 29.0-7415
Part of the Aztec West Ruin: Perishable Artifacts and Pottery from Excavations by the American Museum of Natural History project
Creator(s): Laurie Webster
Year: 2006
Summary
Cotton Cloth, Accession AMNH29.0, Catalog #7415. Morris FS 1007. Analyzed by Laurie Webster, 2006. Strip of 1/1 plain weave cotton cloth. Image: AMNH 29.0-7415A: strip of cotton plain-weave cloth. Recovered from Earl Morris' excavation of Room 62-2, Aztec West Ruin. Morris’ (1928:317) description of Room 62-2 is as follows: “A rat nest of which the major constituent was about six bushels of cornhusks and tassels, reed stems, and cedarbark, occupied the southwest corner of Room 62-2. Among this mass were a bird bone tube, knotted yucca strips, a rectangular frame, a cedarbark pot rest, fragments of plaited matting, a plaited sandal, cotton cloth, buckskin, reed stem arrows, a smoothed stick, a carved stick, and adobe mud with a human footprint (29.0-7409-7423), and a hafted knife (29.0-7408) which lay on the floor in the northeast corner. The fallen timbers of the roof of the second story were uncharred. The door in the west wall is mentioned under Room 60-2 and the diagonal passage in the southwest corner under Room 49. The door in the middle of the north wall is 1 foot 11 inches wide, beginning 2 feet 1 inch from the floor.”
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 Cloth AMNH 29.0-7415. Laurie Webster. 2006. Aztec Ruins National Monument ( tDAR id: 373541) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8C827W2
Keywords
Culture
Ancestral Puebloan
Material
Textile
Site Name
Aztec Ruins, West Ruin
Site Type
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
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Settlements
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Town / City
Investigation Types
Collections Research
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Data Recovery / Excavation
General
Aztec Ruins National Monument, Aztec, NM
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Aztec West Ruin
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Cotton Cloth
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Perishable Artifacts
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Room 62-2
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Textile Artifacts
Geographic Keywords
Animas Valley
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Four Corners Region
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Middle San Juan
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San Juan Basin
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Totah
Temporal Keywords
Late Chacoan - Post Chacoan Period
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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