Perishable: Coiled Basket AZRU1-1033

Coiled Basket, Accession AZRU-00001, Catalog #1033. Morris FS 5256. Analyzed by Laurie Webster and Ed Jolie, 2006. Coiled basket bowl, base repaired with a coiled plaque decorated with a Mesa Verde-period design. Bowl is two-rod stacked; base plaque is two-rod and welt/bundle foundation. Measurements: D 28.5, H 8.0 CM. Image AZRU1-1033 A: coiled basket, base repaired with a coiled plaque. AZRU1-1033 B: detail. AZRU1-1033 C: detail of center 1. AZRU1-1033 D: detail of center 2. AZRU1-1033 E: side view 1. AZRU1-1033 F: side view 2. AZRU1-1033 G, side view 3. 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.