Perishable: Cotton Cloth AMNH 29.0-7625

Cotton Cloth, Accession AMNH29.0, Catalog #7625. Morris FS 1218. Analyzed by Laurie Webster, 2006. Fragment of colored 2/2 twill cotton tapestry. Images: AMNH 29.0-7625A: twill-tapestry fragment with intact end selvage. AMNH 29.0-7625B: close-up of twill-tapestry fragment. AMNH 29.0-7625C: close-up of other face showing intact end selvage 2.AMNH 29.0-7625D: close-up of other face showing intact end selvage 1. 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.

棉织物，入藏编号AMNH29.0，馆藏号#7625，编号Morris FS 1218。2006年由劳里·韦伯斯特（Laurie Webster）完成分析。该标本为彩色2/2斜纹棉织挂毯残片。
影像资料：AMNH 29.0-7625A：带有完整端头织边的斜纹挂毯残片；AMNH 29.0-7625B：斜纹挂毯残片特写；AMNH 29.0-7625C：另一面特写，可见完整端头织边2；AMNH 29.0-7625D：另一面特写，可见完整端头织边1。
该残片出土于厄尔·莫里斯（Earl Morris）对阿兹特克西遗址（Aztec West Ruin）48号房间的发掘现场。
厄尔·莫里斯在发掘时对48号房间的描述如下：“房间地面遍布废弃物堆积。该堆积物大部分为植物性物质：玉米秆、玉米苞叶、玉米雄穗、玉米芯、雪松树皮及该木材的碎块，同时包含人类排泄物。这套查科时期的堆积完全未受潮气侵蚀，除德尔穆尔托峡谷洞穴中出土的同类遗存外，这是笔者经手过的保存易腐文物最丰富的堆积。在支撑该遗址二层结构的木料坍塌前，沙土已向下渗透至这套堆积层上方。在土丘最终成型后，这些木料于近期发生坍塌——坍塌后其上方的堆积物因沉降形成不规则凹坑，该遗迹可佐证这一事件”（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5分册，《美国自然历史博物馆人类学论文集》，纽约。