Perishable: Plaited Ring Basket AZRU1-1032

Summary

Plaited Ring Basket, Accession AZRU-00001, Catalog #1032. Morris FS 5550. Analyzed by Laurie Webster, 2006. Ring basket with two-color (brown, natural) concentric diamond design. Measurements: D 23.0, H 9.0 CM. Image AZRU1-1032 A: plaited ring basket 2. AZRU1-1032 B: design detail, upper face. AZRU1-1032 C: detail of design, upper face. AZRU1-1032 D: plaited ring basket 1. AZRU1-1032 E: design detail, lower face. AZRU1-1032 F: plaited ring basket in exhibit case 1. AZRU1-1032 G: plaited ring basket in exhibit case 2. AZRU1-1032 H: plaited ring basket in exhibit case 3. AZRU1-1032 I: side view showing twining cords tied over diamond 1. AZRU1-1032 J: side view showing twining cords tied over diamond 2. AZRU1-1032 K: side view showing twining cords tied over diamond 3. AZRU1-1032 L: side view showing twining cords tied over diamond 4. Recovered from Earl Morris' excavation of Room 180, 3rd floor, Aztec West Ruin. Earl Morris’ description of Room 180 at the time of excavation is as follows. “….fallen into ruin [before the later occupation of Aztec Ruin]. The partial excavation of this chamber revealed the first story filled with detritus from the upper walls, including the well-preserved, though broken, timbers, apparently of two ceilings…Visible in it, through the door leading into Room 147, were long slender pine poles and portions of willow mats, some of them with a striped color effect produced by alternating series of white peeled sticks with series of dark brown unpeeled ones. Extending from the upper limit of the debris to 5 feet above the level of the second floor at the west side and 7 feet at the east, was a refuse deposit containing a large number artifacts and Burials Nos. 89-101” (Morris1928:378).

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. For burials see Earl Morris, 1924, Burials in the Aztec Ruin and the Aztec Ruin Annex, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History Vol. XXVI, Parts III and IV, American Museum of Natural History, New York.

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Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 1110 to 1140 (Late Chacoan)

Calendar Date: 1140 to 1280 (Post-Chacoan)

Spatial Coverage

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Gary Brown

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

Principal Investigator(s): Laurie Webster

Repository(s): American Museum of Natural History, New York City, NY

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: Property of American Museum of Natural History, New York.

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

Original Item: Housed at 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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