Perishable: Hide Fragments AZRU8-2743

Hide Fragments, Accession AZRU-00008, Catalog #2743. Morris FS 3754. Analyzed by Laurie Webster, 2006. Collection of hide fragments. Approx six fragments wired together. Measurements: Not measured. Image: AZRU8-2743 A: collection of hide fragments. Recovered from Earl Morris' excavation of Room147, Aztec West Ruin. Earl Morris’ description of Room 147 at the time of excavation is as follows: “the immediate floor covering was a foot of refuse, with Burials Nos. 60 and 61 on the surface of the refuse…[long listing of artifacts]… In each end of the west wall is a ventilator opening and in the north half of the east wall is a hole made by relic hunters…The one ceiling support was a pine trunk extending from north to south. The poles were of cottonwood, spaced in threes, and spanning the entire length of the room. The support broke, first at the center, and again at the north wall. In consequence, the ceiling bagged down more than 2 feet at the central point and probably would have completely fallen during the last forty years, wreaking havoc with the contents of Room 136-2, had not the early visitors to the ruin set up a post with a cap piece beneath the break in the stringer” (Morris 1928:379).
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.

兽皮残片，登记号AZRU-00008，馆藏编号2743。莫里斯FS 3754。本藏品于2006年由劳里·韦伯斯特（Laurie Webster）完成分析。藏品为兽皮残片集合，约六片残片以线材捆绑固定。尺寸：未测量。影像资料：AZRU8-2743 A：兽皮残片集合。该残片出土自厄尔·莫里斯（Earl Morris）对阿兹特克西遗址（Aztec West Ruin）147号房址的发掘。

厄尔·莫里斯在发掘时对147号房址的描述如下："房址表层直接覆盖着1英尺厚的废弃物堆积，墓葬60号与61号即位于该堆积表面……[此处省略长段器物清单]……西墙两端各设有通风口，东墙北半部分留有盗墓者留下的孔洞……房内仅有一根作为顶棚支撑的松树主干，呈南北向延伸；房梁由成组排列的三角叶杨（cottonwood）搭建，每三根为一组，横跨整个房址长度。该支撑结构先后在中部和北墙处断裂。受此影响，顶棚在中部位置向下凹陷超过2英尺；若非早期到访该遗址的人员在横梁断裂处下方架设了带顶件的立柱，顶棚可能会在随后的40年间完全坍塌，对136-2号房址的出土遗物造成严重破坏"（莫里斯1928：第379页）。

参考文献：厄尔·莫里斯，1928年，《阿兹特克遗址发掘笔记》，第26卷第五分册，美国自然历史博物馆人类学论文集（Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History），纽约。