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.棉织物，入藏编号AZRU-00008，目录号2776，编号Morris FS 5052。2006年由劳里·韦伯斯特（Laurie Webster）进行分析。该织物为带有紫色污渍的棉平纹残片，留存有布边（selvage）。尺寸：长7.0厘米，宽16.5厘米。影像资料：AZRU8-2776 A：带有完整布边的棉平纹织物；AZRU8-2776 B：展示紫色污渍的特写镜头。该织物出土于厄尔·莫里斯（Earl Morris）对阿兹特克西遗址（Aztec West Ruin）180号房间的发掘工作。莫里斯将180号房间描述为“在阿兹特克遗址后期占据阶段前就已坍塌废弃”。对该室的局部发掘显示，第一层堆积充满了来自上部墙体的碎屑，包括虽已破碎但保存完好的木料，显然属于两处顶棚结构……通过通往147号房间的门可以看到室内有细长的松木杆以及部分柳编席，其中部分席子带有条纹视觉效果，由交替排列的去皮白色细枝与未去皮深棕色细枝编织而成。从堆积的上限向西延伸至西侧二层楼面上方5英尺、向东延伸至东侧二层楼面上方7英尺处，存在一处包含大量人工制品以及89至101号墓葬的垃圾堆积层”（莫里斯，1928：378）。参考文献：厄尔·莫里斯，1928年，《阿兹特克遗址发掘笔记》，第26卷第5分册，美国自然历史博物馆人类学论文集，纽约。