Perishable: Reed-stem Container AMNH 29.0/5336

Reed-stem Container, Accession AMNH29.0, Catalog #5336. Morris FS 86. Analyzed by Laurie Webster, 2006. Miniature reed-stem container with yucca cordage, 2-strand twining (S). Images: AMNH 29.0/5336A: miniature reed-stem container. AMNH 29.0/5336B: other face of miniature reed-stem container. AMNH 29.0/5336C: close-up of feather cord. AMNH 29.0/5336D: close-up of one end. AMNH 29.0/5336E: close-up of cords attached to one corner. Recovered from Earl Morris' excavation of Room122-2, Aztec West Ruin. Morris (1928:357) indicates that “Room 122-2 is situated above Room 112. Refuse, more than half of its bulk composed of vegetable and other perishable substances, had been thrown in through the door connecting with the room above Room 110, forming a fan-shaped deposit, 2 feet deep, beneath the door and dwindling out in the northeast and northwest corners. Being in an outer tier, the slope above Room 122-2, was very steep, providing excellent drainage, which condition, together with the air space beneath the floor, had excluded all moisture from the refuse. This mass, of Chaco age, contained a fine assortment of textiles and other perishable artifacts (29.0-5251-5400), such as in most places is entirely decayed. The conspicuous components of the deposit, other than manufactured articles, were shreds of cedarbark, cornhusks, and cobs, strips of yucca leaf in great abundance, excrement, ashes, and floor sweepings.”
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.

芦秆容器，入藏号AMNH29.0，馆藏编号#5336，编号Morris FS 86。2006年由劳里·韦伯斯特（Laurie Webster）完成分析。该器物为微型芦秆容器，采用丝兰绳捆扎，以2股编绞工艺制作（S型）。影像资料包括：AMNH 29.0/5336A：微型芦秆容器全貌；AMNH 29.0/5336B：微型芦秆容器另一面；AMNH 29.0/5336C：绳结细节特写；AMNH 29.0/5336D：器物一端特写；AMNH 29.0/5336E：器物一角绳结附着细节特写。该器物出土自厄尔·莫里斯（Earl Morris）对阿兹特克西遗址（Aztec West Ruin）122-2号房址的发掘工作。莫里斯（1928：357）曾记载：“122-2号房址坐落于112号房址上方。堆积的废弃物中有逾半数为植物及其他易腐物质，这些废弃物通过连通110号房址上方房间的门被抛入房内，在门下方形成厚达2英尺的扇形堆积，并向东北、西北两个角落逐渐变薄。由于该房址位于遗址外侧区域，其上坡坡度极陡，排水条件极佳，加之房址地板下方留有空气层，因此彻底隔绝了堆积中的潮气。这处属于查科文化时期的堆积中，包含了各类精致的纺织品及其他易腐人工制品（编号范围29.0-5251至5400），而这类遗存在绝大多数遗址中已完全腐朽。除人工制品外，该堆积的显著组分还包括雪松树皮碎块、玉米苞叶与玉米穗轴、大量丝兰叶片条带、粪便、灰烬以及地表清扫碎屑。”参考文献：厄尔·莫里斯，1928年，《阿兹特克遗址发掘笔记》，第二十六卷，第五部分，美国自然历史博物馆人类学论文集，纽约。