Perishable: Reed-stem container fragment AZRU8-2601

Reed-stem Container, Accession AZRU-00008, Catalog #2601. Morris FS 5252. Analyzed by Laurie Webster, 2006. Probable remains of a reed-stem container. Approx 10 reeds are traversed at one end by a paired row of 2-strand twining (S) joined by square knots. Each strand encloses two elements. Measurements: L 63.0, W 5.0 CM. Images: AZRU8-2601 A: probable remains of reed-stem container (lower). AZRU8-2601 B: detail of twining. Recovered from Earl Morris' excavation of Room 189, Upper Level, Aztec West Ruin. Morris noted that Room 189 “contained the largest quantity of perishable objects from the Chaco period that have to date been taken from any chamber in the western half of the pueblo. [Later occupants] laid down a 1 to 3 inch floor of adobe upon the earlier refuse and a bin was built up in the northwest corner” (Morris1928:371).
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.