Perishable: Cotton Textile AZRU8-2733

Cotton Textile, Accession AZRU-00008, Catalog #2733. Morris FS 5337. Analyzed by Laurie Webster, 2006. Large piece of cotton plain-weave cloth folded in half lengthwise and stitched up the side to make a baglike object. Intact section of apocynum? stitching present along one side. Remnants of stitching along the other. Very balanced weave. Wide fabric. Measurements: L 32.0, W 78.0 CM. Images: AZRU8-2733 A: folded, baglike, cotton plain-weave textile (with flash). AZRU8-2733 B: folded, baglike, cotton plain-weave textile. AZRU8-2733 C: folded, baglike textile, other face. AZRU8-2733 D: detail showing variation in the running stitches (some parallel, others seem to twist around each other). AZRU8-2733 E: detail of side seam. AZRU8-2733 F: detail of selvage showing inner row of stitching (two parallel rows of running stitches). AZRU8-2733 G: detail of selvage showing inner row of stitching 3. AZRU8-2733 H: detail of selvage showing inner row of stitching 2. AZRU8-2733 I: detail of balanced warp and weft elements 2. AZRU8-2733 J: detail of balanced warp and weft elements 1. AZRU8-2733 K: close-up of possible apocynum stitching yarns 2. AZRU8-2733 L: close-up of possible apocynum stitching yarns 1. AZRU8-2733 M: remains of stitching at other corner. AZRU8-2733 N: side view showing remnants of seam 1. AZRU8-2733 O: side view showing remnants of seam 2. Recovered from Earl Morris' excavation of Room189, Lower 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.