Perishable: Twined Sandal AZRU8-1790

Twined Sandal, Accession AZRU-00008, Catalog #1790. Morris FS 5302. Analyzed by Laurie Webster, 2006. Finely woven decorated twined sandal. One of a pair with AZRU8-956. Jogged toe, hide toe loop (repaired) and heel strap, brown horizontal bands. Underside obscured by mount. Sandal probably has raised triangular design like AZRU8-956. Measurements: L 27.0, W 10.2 CM. Images: AZRU8-1790 A: twined sandal with banded design, upper face (other face obscured by mount). AZRU8-1790 B: detail of broken and retied toe loops. AZRU8-1790 C: detail of heel. AZRU8-1790 D: detail of heel finish 1. AZRU8-1790 E: detail of heel finish 2. AZRU8-1790 F: detail of heel finish 3. AZRU8-1790 G: detail of heel finish 4. AZRU8-1790 H: detail of heel finish 5. Recovered from Earl Morris' excavation of Room 189, Aztec West Ruin. Morris noted that Room 189 “contained the largest quantity of perishable objects from the Chaco period that have to date been taken from any chamber in the western half of the pueblo. [Later occupants] laid down a 1 to 3 inch floor of adobe upon the earlier refuse and a bin was built up in the northwest corner” (Morris1928:371).
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.