Perishable: Snowshoe Frame AMNH 29.0/7720

Snowshoe Frame, Accession AMNH29.0, Catalog #7720. Morris FS 1313. Analyzed by Laurie Webster, 2006. Snowshoe frame, wrapped and twined S-wise, 2S-Z cordage, rush leaves and yucca cordage. Image: AMNH 29.0/7720A: snowshoe frame. Recovered from Earl Morris' excavation of Room 48, Aztec West Ruin. Earl Morris’ description of Room 48 at the time of excavation is as follows. “The floor was covered with refuse.. The greater proportion of this deposit was of vegetable substance; cornstalks, husks, tassels, and cobs, cedarbark, splinters of the same wood, as well as human excrement. This deposit of Chaco age had been completely protected from moisture and constituted, aside from some found in the caves of Del Muerto canyon, the richest repository for perishable artifacts that has come within the experience of the writer. Above this sand had worked down through the second floor before the timbers supporting the latter had failed. These had fallen in recent times, after the mound had reached its final form, as evidenced by the ragged crater left by the settling of the debris above them subsequent to their collapse” (Morris 1928:307-308).
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.

雪鞋架（Snowshoe Frame），入藏编号AMNH29.0，馆藏编号7720，编号Morris FS 1313。该藏品由劳里·韦伯斯特（Laurie Webster）于2006年完成分析。其为采用S向缠绕编结工艺的雪鞋架，使用2S-Z型绳索、灯心草叶片与丝兰纤维绳制作。图片资料：AMNH 29.0/7720A：雪鞋架。该遗物出自厄尔·莫里斯（Earl Morris）对阿兹特克西遗址（Aztec West Ruin）48号房间的考古发掘。
厄尔·莫里斯在发掘时对48号房间的描述如下：“当时房间地面遍布废弃堆积，其中绝大多数为植物性有机质：玉米秆、玉米苞叶、雄花穗与穗轴、雪松树皮及该木材碎块，此外还包含人类排泄物。这处查科时期（Chaco age）的堆积完全隔绝水汽，除德尔穆尔托峡谷洞穴中出土的同类遗存外，这是笔者经手所见保存状况最佳的易腐朽文物埋藏点。在支撑第二层地面的木料坍塌前，这类堆积沙土已向下渗透至该层。木料的坍塌发生在土丘最终定型之后的近代，其坍塌后上方堆积物沉降形成的不规则凹坑可作为佐证”（莫里斯1928：307-308）。
参考文献：厄尔·莫里斯（Earl Morris），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。