Perishable: Wrapped Bundle AMNH 29.0/7319

Wrapped Bundle, Accession AMNH29.0, Catalog #7319. Morris FS 911. Analyzed by Laurie Webster, 2006. Rush bundle wrapped in 2-color, diamond twill cotton tapestry, Images: AMNH 29.0/7319A: rush bundle wrapped in cotton diamond-twill tapestry fabric 1. AMNH 29.0/7319B: rush bundle wrapped in cotton diamond-twill tapestry fabric 2. AMNH 29.0/7319C: side view of rush bundle. AMNH 29.0/7319D: underside of rush bundle 1. AMNH 29.0/7319E: underside of rush bundle 2. AMNH 29.0/7319F: hole in deteriorated overcast side seam. AMNH 29.0/7319G: end view of rush bundle. AMNH 29.0/7319H: close-up of cotton diamond-twill tapestry fabric 1. AMNH 29.0/7319I: close-up of cotton diamond-twill tapestry fabric 2. AMNH 29.0/7319J: close-up of cotton diamond-twill tapestry fabric 3. AMNH 29.0/7319K: close-up of end with exposed rush bundle. AMNH 29.0/7319L: close-up of end with overcast seam 1. AMNH 29.0/7319M: close-up of end with overcast seam 2. AMNH 29.0/7319N: close-up of end with overcast seam 3. AMNH 29.0-7319O: close-up of end with overcast seam 4. AMNH 29.0/7319P: close-up of exposed rush bundle on underside. AMNH 29.0/7319Q: close-up of one end of rush bundle. AMNH 29.0/7319R: close-up of one end showing exposed rush bundle. Recovered from Earl Morris' excavation of Room 49, Aztec West Ruin. Morris (1928:306) indicates that “The initial 3 to 5 feet of fill in Room 49 was of refuse, mostly ashes, deepest against the east wall near the door. In it were found a red pottery disk, part of a pottery human effigy, potsherds, eleven mammal bone awls, a bird bone awl…[long list of artifacts]…Above the refuse were the timbers of the fallen ceiling. The latter had consisted of two pairs of pine timbers crossing the shorter dimension of the room and dividing its area into thirds. Above them, laid in the opposite direction, had been peeled poles 2 to 3 inches in diameter, then a layer of cedar splints, an inch of adobe, a covering of cedarbark, and finally several inches of clean earth, the top of which had formed the floor of the room above. Fire had reached no portion of this ceiling. The floor at which excavations ceased is at least 2 feet 2 inches above what was ground level at the time the walls were erected. Where the floor was broken through, the fill beneath was found to contain small cobblestones carried in presumably at the time Kiva G was erected for the purpose of raising the floor level well above that of the kiva.”
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.