Perishable: Looped Object AMNH 29.0/7591

Looped Object, Accession AMNH29.0, Catalog #7591. Morris FS 1184. Analyzed by Laurie Webster, 2006. Open weave, simple loop object of yucca fiber, perhaps a bag. Image: AMNH 29.0/7591A: looped object, open weave. Recovered from Earl Morris' excavation of Room 48, Aztec West Ruin. Earl Morris’ description of Room 48 at the time of excavation is as follows. “The floor was covered with refuse.. The greater proportion of this deposit was of vegetable substance; cornstalks, husks, tassels, and cobs, cedarbark, splinters of the same wood, as well as human excrement. This deposit of Chaco age had been completely protected from moisture and constituted, aside from some found in the caves of Del Muerto canyon, the richest repository for perishable artifacts that has come within the experience of the writer. Above this sand had worked down through the second floor before the timbers supporting the latter had failed. These had fallen in recent times, after the mound had reached its final form, as evidenced by the ragged crater left by the settling of the debris above them subsequent to their collapse” (Morris 1928:307-308).
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.

编结物件，入藏号AMNH29.0，馆藏编号7591，莫里斯FS 1184。2006年由劳里·韦伯斯特（Laurie Webster）完成分析。该物件采用丝兰纤维制成，为平纹编织的简易套环制品，推测为布袋。影像资料：AMNH 29.0/7591A：编结物件，平纹编织结构。该物件出土于厄尔·莫里斯（Earl Morris）对阿兹特克西遗址（Aztec West Ruin）48号房间的发掘工作。
厄尔·莫里斯在发掘期间对48号房间的描述如下："地面遍布废弃物堆积层。该堆积层绝大部分为植物性物质，包括玉米秸秆、玉米苞叶、玉米雄穗、玉米芯、雪松树皮、该木材的碎料，以及人类粪便。这批查科时期的堆积层完全未受潮气侵蚀，除德尔穆尔托峡谷洞穴中出土的同类遗存外，这是笔者所见保存易腐人工制品最为丰富的馆藏。在支撑该第二层居住面的木构件失效前，上层沙土已向下渗入第二层。这些木构件在土丘形成最终形态后于近期坍塌，坍塌后其上方堆积物沉降形成的不规则坑洼可为此提供佐证"（莫里斯，1928：307-308）。
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（American Museum of Natural History）人类学论文集，纽约。