Perishable: Twined Sandal AMNH 29.0/8268

Twined Sandal, Accession AMNH29.0, Catalog # 8268. Morris FS 1764. Analyzed by Laurie Webster, 2006. Twined sandal fragments with raised design, yucca fiber 2-strand twining (S). Images: AMNH 29.0/8268A: twined sandal fragments, upper face. AMNH 29.0/8268B: twined sandal fragments, lower face. AMNH 29.0/8268C: oblique view of lower face showing raised designs. AMNH 29.0/8268D: oblique view of lower face under raking light. Recovered from Earl Morris' excavation of Room 71, Aztec West Ruin. Morris (1928:292) indicates that “On the floor of Room 71 was a thin wash of adobe. Above it were the stones which had been the components of the veneer of the greater part of the west wall and the areas over the doors in both the north and south walls…On the south end of the second floor there had been a small quantity of vegetable refuse, mostly cornhusks, tassels, and reed stems. From this were recovered pieces of tanned hide, a hide bag, a ceremonial stick, a knotted yucca strip, the border of a rush mat, and part of a cloth sandal…”
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.