Perishable: Cotton Cloth AZRU8-2776

Cotton Cloth, Accession AZRU-00008, Catalog #2776. Morris FS 5052. Analyzed by Laurie Webster, 2006. Fragment of cotton plain-weave cloth with purplish staining. End selvage present. Measurements: L 7.0, W 16.5 CM. Images: AZRU8-2776 A: plain-weave cotton cloth with intact end selvage. AZRU8-2776 B: close-up showing purplish staining. 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.