Perishable: Cotton Braid AZRU8-530

Bundle of Cotton Braid, Accession AZRU-0008, Catalog #530. Morris FS 5249. Analyzed by Laurie Webster, 2006. More than 2M of 10-strand cotton braid gathered into a bundle. Measurements: L 6.5, W 4.0 CM; DIA CORD 0.3 CM. Image: AZRU8-530 A: Bundle of Cotton Braid. Image: AZRU8-530 B: detail showing end tucked under. Recovered from Earl Morris' excavation of 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.