Perishable: Cotton Cloth AMNH 29.0/8396

Cotton Cloth, Accession AMNH29.0, Catalog #8396. Morris FS 1889. Analyzed by Laurie Webster, 2006. Banded colored cotton fabric, 2/1 twill woven and 1/1 plain-woven. Image: AMNH 29.0/8396A: twill and plain-weave cotton cloth. AMNH 29.0/8396B: close-up of twill and plain-weave cloth 1. AMNH 29.0/8396C: close-up of twill and plain-weave cloth 2. Recovered from Earl Morris' excavation of Room 80, Aztec West Ruin. Earl Morris’ description of Room 80 at the time of excavation is as follows. “From 6 inches to 1 foot 3 inches of washed sand and adobe covered the floor of Room 80….The veneer of the south wall, from the bottom of the door to the ceiling level, had fallen, as had a similar portion of the north wall. Dust and refuse….completed the fill to a depth of 5 and one-half feet. One pine log extending north and south had upheld the ceiling and the small poles were likewise of pine. The beam broke near the center, but did not snap off at the walls. Instead, the ceiling bagged downward until the broken ends of the timber came to rest on the fill beneath. Along the walls, under the woodwork, there was a cavity on all sides which never filled. There was much refuse on the second floor, predominantly of vegetable matter. From what remained above the ceiling….[long list of artifacts]….In the fallen masonry, reaching to the surface of the mound, were parts of the unburned second ceiling and charcoal and burned earth from the third…There is a ventilator in each end of the north wall.” (Morris 1928: 327-329) 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，藏品登记号AMNH29.0，目录号#8396。出自Morris FS 1889年相关记录，2006年由劳里·韦伯斯特（Laurie Webster）完成分析。该织物为带饰彩色棉织物，采用2上1下斜纹（twill）与1上1下平纹（plain weave）两种织造工艺。影像资料：AMNH 29.0/8396A：斜纹与平纹织造棉织物；AMNH 29.0/8396B：斜纹与平纹织物特写1；AMNH 29.0/8396C：斜纹与平纹织物特写2。该织物出土自厄尔·莫里斯（Earl Morris）对阿兹特克西遗址（Aztec West Ruin）80号房间的发掘工作。厄尔·莫里斯在发掘时对80号房间的记录如下："6英寸至1英尺3英寸厚的水洗砂与土坯覆盖了80号房间的地面……南墙面从门底至天花板高度的饰面已坍塌，北墙对应区域同样发生坍塌。尘土与废弃物堆积层总厚度达5.5英尺。一根南北走向的松木梁支撑着天花板，小型支撑杆亦为松木材质。横梁在靠近中央处断裂，但未在墙体处完全脱离，天花板因此向下垂塌，直至断裂的木梁两端落在下方的堆积层上。沿墙体、木质结构下方的四周均存在未被填充的空腔。二层存在大量废弃物，以植物残体为主。从天花板上方留存的遗存……[大量文物清单]……在坍塌至土丘表面的砌体中，发现了未被焚毁的第二层天花板残件，以及来自第三层的木炭与烧土……北墙两端各设有一处通风口。" (Morris 1928: 327-329) 参考文献：厄尔·莫里斯（Earl Morris），1928年，《阿兹特克遗址发掘笔记》，第26卷第五分册，《美国自然历史博物馆人类学论文集》，纽约。