Perishable: Coiled Basket AMNH 29.0/6741

Coiled Basket, Accession AMNH29.0, Catalog #6741. Morris FS 351. CULTURALLY SENSITIVE: NAGPRA ARTIFACT; ACCESS RESTRICTED. Analyzed by Laurie Webster, 2006. Fragments of coiled willow or sumac basket,1-rod, intricate stitch and wrap. Images: AMNH 29.0/6741A: one-rod coiling with intricate stitch. AMNH 29.0/6741B: rim fragment worked in intricate stitch. Recovered from Earl Morris' excavation of Room 29, Grave 8, Aztec West Ruin. Morris (1928:292) indicates that "a meager amount of refuse was strewn over the floor of Room 29, among which were a polished sandstone slab, a grooved ax, and a bone paddle (29.0-6733-6735). Portions of the burned ceiling were in the fill of fallen wall material. Burial No. 8 was in the northwest corner.
In the center of the north wall is a doorway 1 foot 10 inches wide, and originally more than 3 feet high, the sill being at floor level. It was completely filled, to a height of 10 inches, with sandstone masonry and thence upward the northern side was sealed with a one-course cobblestone wall, thus leaving a 10 inch recess facing Room 29. South of the center of the east wall is an unusually high and narrow door with dimensions of 1 foot 4 inches and 4 feet, leading into Room 33. This was sealed with cobblestone masonry." 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.
Also see: Earl Morris, 1924, Burials in the Aztec Ruin, Volume XXVI, Part III, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, New York.