Perishable: Plaited Bag AZRU8-1805

Plaited Bag, Accession AZRU-00008, Catalog #1805. Morris FS 5296. Analyzed by Laurie Webster, 2006. Elongated plaited rush bag, 2/2 weave, filled with well-preserved feather-wrapped yucca cordage. Measurements: L 36.0, W 18.0 CM. Width of mouth opening 10.0 CM. Images: AZRU8-1805 A: plaited bag, stuffed with feather-wrapped cordage. AZRU8-1805 B: plaited bag. AZRU8-1805 C: detail of mouth opening. AZRU8-1805 D: detail of mouth opening 2. AZRU8-1805 E: detail of mouth opening 3. AZRU8-1805 F: detail of mouth opening 4. AZRU8-1805 G: detail of mouth opening 5. AZRU8-1805 H: inner surface of mouth opening. AZRU8-1805 I: other face showing tapered mouth opening. AZRU8-1805 J: inner surface of mouth opening. Recovered from Earl Morris' excavation of Room 189, 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.