Perishable: Plaited Sandal AMNH 29.0/7653

Plaited Sandal, Accession AMNH29.0, Catalog #7653. Morris FS 1246. Analyzed by Laurie Webster, 2006. Plaited sandal with side loops, yucca leaf, 2/2 twill. Images: AMNH 29.0/7653A: 2-2 plaited sandal with side loops, upper face. AMNH 29.0/7653B: 2-2 plaited sandal with side loops, lower face. 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.

编结凉鞋，入藏编号AMNH29.0，馆藏号7653，Morris FS 1246。2006年由劳里·韦伯斯特（Laurie Webster）完成分析。带侧环的编结凉鞋，材质为丝兰叶（yucca leaf），采用2/2斜纹（2/2 twill）编织工艺。影像资料：AMNH 29.0/7653A：带侧环的2/2斜纹编结凉鞋正面；AMNH 29.0/7653B：带侧环的2/2斜纹编结凉鞋背面。该文物出土于厄尔·莫里斯（Earl Morris）对阿兹特克西遗址（Aztec West Ruin）48号房间的发掘工作。厄尔·莫里斯对发掘时的48号房间描述如下：“房间地面遍布废弃堆积，其中绝大部分为植物性物质，包括玉米秆、玉米苞叶、玉米雄穗、玉米芯、雪松树皮及该木材的碎料，同时伴有人类排泄物。这套查科时期（Chaco age）的堆积完全未受水汽侵扰，除德尔穆尔托峡谷（Del Muerto canyon）洞穴中出土的遗存外，这是笔者从业以来所见保存最完好的易腐文物埋藏点。在支撑二层的木材坍塌前，沙土已渗入该堆积层。这些木材是在土丘最终成型后于近代坍塌的，其上方堆积物坍塌后留下的不规则凹坑可为此佐证”（莫里斯，1928：307-308）。参考文献：厄尔·莫里斯，1928年，《阿兹特克遗址发掘笔记》，第26卷第五分册，美国自然历史博物馆（American Museum of Natural History）人类学论文集，纽约。