Perishable: Cornhusk Container AMNH 29.0/8425
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
Cornhusk Container, Accession AMNH29.0, Catalog #8425. Morris FS 2918. Analyzed by Laurie Webster, 2006. Elongated cornhusk container with knotted, twisted yucca framework, square and overhand knots. Images: AMNH 29.0/8425A: elongated cornhusk container. AMNH 29.0/8425B: close-up of base. AMNH 29.0/8425C: side view, note wide yucca elements 1. AMNH 29.0/8425D: side view, note wide yucca elements 2. Recovered from Earl Morris' excavation of Room 72, Aztec West Ruin. Earl Morris’ description of Room 72 at the time of excavation is as follows. “A layer of washed adobe 2 to 4 inches thick covered the floor of Room 72. Eleven long unpeeled willows had been left standing in the southeast corner. The ceiling support was one pine log running north and south…. The small poles were also of pine. Somewhat more than five cubic yards of dry refuse had been deposited in the room above Room 72. …. [Long list of artifacts]…. Eventually, …the wall between [Room 63] and Room 72 collapsed into the latter chamber, filling it with masonry from 1 foot at the east side to 3 and one-half feet at the west. In falling, the wall brought with it most of the west half of the ceiling of Room 72….refuse poured down from above… [A] secondary deposit continued in an unbroken line across Rooms 63 and 72. It was about 6 feet deep against the west wall of Room 63 and dwindled down to 2 feet at the east wall of Room 72….In the fallen masonry above the refuse were partially burned timbers from an upper ceiling. Eventually, the timber supporting the ceiling of Room 73 slivered near the south end and, with the mass above it, settled down.... A large cavity was left beneath the then sloping ceiling along the north and east walls….At the middle of the north wall is a door, 2 feet 4 inches wide, and 4 feet high, with sill 3 feet from the floor.” (Morris1928: 319-320). 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: Cornhusk Container AMNH 29.0/8425. Laurie Webster. 2006. Aztec Ruins National Monument ( tDAR id: 374458) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8JM283P
Keywords
Culture
Ancestral Puebloan
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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Basketry
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Cornhusk Container
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Perishable Artifacts
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Room 72
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): Lori Reed
Contributor(s): Gary Brown; Anne Grulich; Aztec Ruins National Monument, Aztec, NM; Aztec Ruins National Monument
Principal Investigator(s): Laurie Webster
Repository(s): American Museum of Natural History; Aztec Ruins National Monument, Aztec, NM
Record Identifiers
Aztec Ruins National Monument Accession Number(s): AMNH 29.0
Notes
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.
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.
Source Collections
Original Items: American Museum of Natural History, New York, and NPS, Aztec Ruins National Monument, Aztec, New Mexico
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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