Perishable: Corncob on Reed AZRU8-2871

Corncob on Reed, Accession AZRU-00008, Catalog #2871. Morris FS 5056. Analyzed by Laurie Webster, 2006. Corncob mounted on a reed stem (phragmites). Corn cob mostly missing. Measurements: L 12.0, D 2.5 CM. Image: AZRU8-2871 A: corncob mounted on a reed. Recovered from Earl Morris' excavation of Room 180, 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.