Perishable: Yucca Ties AZRU8-2851

Yucca Ties, Accession AZRU-00008, Catalog #2851. Morris FS 5046. Analyzed by Laurie Webster, 2006. Three yucca ties, coiled and joined with square knots. Probably originally tied around beams. Measurements: D 9.0, 12.0, AND 18.0 CM. Image: AZRU8-2851 A: three coiled yucca-leaf ties with square knots. Recovered from Earl Morris' excavation of Room180, Aztec West Ruin. Morris described Room 180 as “fallen into ruin [before the later occupation of Aztec Ruin]. The partial excavation of this chamber revealed the first story filled with detritus from the upper walls, including the well-preserved, though broken, timbers, apparently of two ceilings…Visible in it, through the door leading into Room 147, were long slender pine poles and portions of willow mats, some of them with a striped color effect produced by alternating series of white peeled sticks with series of dark brown unpeeled ones. Extending from the upper limit of the debris to 5 feet above the level of the second floor at the west side and 7 feet at the east, was a refuse deposit containing a large number artifacts and Burials Nos. 89-101” (Morris1928:378).
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.