Perishable: Openwork Basket AMNH 29.0/5310

Basket, Accession AMNH29.0, Catalog #5310. Morris FS 61. Analyzed by Laurie Webster, 2006. Wood and yucca openwork basket with cornhusk lining. Images: AMNH 29.0/5310A: cornhusk-lined basket, side view. AMNH 29.0/5310B: cornhusk-lined basket, side view 2. AMNH 29.0/5310C: cornhusk-lined basket, other face. AMNH 29.0/5310D: cornhusk-lined basket, other side 2. AMNH 29.0/5310E: cornhusk-lined basket, top view. AMNH 29.0/5310F: bottom of basket. AMNH 29.0/5310G: close-up of bottom of basket. AMNH 29.0-5310H: close-up of bottom of basket 2. AMNH 29.0/5310I: construction detail showing horizontal elements wrapping around vertical elements 1. AMNH 29.0/5310J: construction detail showing horizontal elements wrapping around vertical elements 2. AMNH 29.0-5310K: construction detail showing horizontal elements wrapping around vertical elements 3. AMNH 29.0/5310L: construction detail showing horizontal elements wrapping around vertical elements 4. AMNH 29.0/5310M: construction detail showing horizontal elements wrapping around vertical elements 5. AMNH 29.0/5310N: construction detail showing horizontal elements wrapping around vertical elements 6. AMNH 29.0/5310O: side view of base. 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.

藏品入藏号：AMNH29.0，目录号：5310，Morris FS 61。该藏品由劳里·韦伯斯特（Laurie Webster）于2006年完成分析鉴定。
该器物为采用木材与丝兰（Yucca）编织的透孔编织篮，内部衬有玉米苞皮（Cornhusk）。
图像说明：
AMNH 29.0/5310A：带玉米苞皮衬里的编织篮侧视图
AMNH 29.0/5310B：带玉米苞皮衬里的编织篮第二侧视图
AMNH 29.0/5310C：带玉米苞皮衬里的编织篮另一面视图
AMNH 29.0/5310D：带玉米苞皮衬里的编织篮另一侧面视图2
AMNH 29.0/5310E：带玉米苞皮衬里的编织篮俯视图
AMNH 29.0/5310F：编织篮底部视图
AMNH 29.0/5310G：编织篮底部特写
AMNH 29.0-5310H：编织篮底部第二处特写
AMNH 29.0/5310I：结构细节图1，展示水平编织元素缠绕垂直编织元素
AMNH 29.0/5310J：结构细节图2，展示水平编织元素缠绕垂直编织元素
AMNH 29.0-5310K：结构细节图3，展示水平编织元素缠绕垂直编织元素
AMNH 29.0/5310L：结构细节图4，展示水平编织元素缠绕垂直编织元素
AMNH 29.0/5310M：结构细节图5，展示水平编织元素缠绕垂直编织元素
AMNH 29.0/5310N：结构细节图6，展示水平编织元素缠绕垂直编织元素
AMNH 29.0/5310O：篮底侧视图
该器物出土于厄尔·莫里斯（Earl Morris）对阿兹特克西遗址（Aztec West Ruin）122-2号房间的发掘工作。
莫里斯（1928：357）曾记载：“122-2号房间坐落于112号房间上方。堆积的垃圾中超过一半的体积由植物及其他易腐物质构成，这些垃圾通过连接110号房间上方的通道被倾倒进来，在门下方形成了厚达2英尺的扇形堆积，并向东北、西北两个角落逐渐变薄。由于该房间位于遗址外侧区域，其上方的坡面极为陡峭，排水条件极佳，加之地板下方存在空气层，因此完全隔绝了垃圾堆积层中的湿气。这批属于查科时期（Chaco age）的堆积物中包含了种类丰富的纺织品与其他易腐人工制品（编号范围29.0-5251至5400），这类遗存多数区域早已完全腐朽。除人工制品外，堆积层中较为显眼的成分还有雪松树皮碎屑、玉米苞皮与玉米芯、大量的丝兰叶条、粪便、灰烬以及地板清扫杂物。”
参考文献：厄尔·莫里斯，1928年，《阿兹特克遗址发掘笔记》，第XXVI卷，第五部分，《美国自然历史博物馆人类学论文集》，纽约。