Ceramic: Mudware and Black-on-white Animal effigy appendages, AMNH 29.0/7525 & 29.0/7524

Mudware and Pueblo II/III black-on-white appendages from hooved animal effigies, AMNH Accession 29.0, Catalog #7525 (Morris FS 1118) and #7524 (Morris FS 1117). Analyzed by Lori Reed 2004. Image AMNH 29.0/7525 & 29.0/7524: front view of appendages. Image AMNH 29.0/7525: view of effigy appendage 7525 standing. Image AMNH 29.0/7524: view of effigy appendage 7524 standing. Recovered from Earl Morris' excavation of Room 48, West Ruin, Aztec Ruins.
Room 48 is in the east wing of West Ruin. “The floor of Room 48 was covered with refuse to a depth of from 4% feet to 7 feet, deepest in front of the door in the east wall. 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 cafion, the. richest repository for perishable artifacts (29.0- 7521-7839) that has come within the experience of the writer. Among other objects this deposit contained: two black-on-white bowls, fragments of mended vessels, pottery effigy of a skunk, three pottery feet belonging to animal effigies, black-on-white potsherds, two jar stoppers of unburned clay, four pieces of moulded unburned clay,….From 1% to 2% feet of 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 d6bris above them subsequent to their collapse” (Morris 1928:307-308).