Perishable: Pahos AZRU8-2635 (L), AZRU8-2568 (R)

Two Pahos, Accession AZRU-00008, Catalog #2635 and #2568. Morris FS 5318 and FS 3912 respectively. Analyzed by Laurie Webster, 2006. AZRU8-2635: Roundel paho with ferule. Lower end shortened and reworked with a deep groove. Morris: "Head of ceremonial stick reworked to knife handle." AZRU8-2568: Roundel paho with ferule. Charred at one end. Measurements: AZRU8-2635= L 19.5, D 1.8 (knob), 1.6 (shaft) CM; and AZRU8-2568= L 36.5, W 1.8 (knob), 1.5 (shaft) CM. Images: AZRU8-2635 A: AZRU8-2635 (L), 2568 (R) two roundel pahos. AZRU8-2635 B: detail of reworked end. Recovered from Earl Morris' excavation of Room 189, lower level, Aztec West Ruin (AZRU8-2635); and Room 154-2, third story (AZRU8-2568). 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.