Perishable: Twined Sandal AZRU1-956

Twined Sandal, Accession AZRU-00001, Catalog #956. Morris FS 5303. Analyzed by Laurie Webster, 2006. Decorated twined sandal with horizontal brown bands and jogged toe. Measurements: L 25.0, W 10.5 CM. Image AZRU1-956 A: twined sandal with banded design, lower face. Image AZRU1-956 B: detail of toe loops 2. Image AZRU1-956 C: oblique view. Image AZRU1-956 D: detail of toe loops 1. Image AZRU1-956 E: upper surface obscured by mount, showing double toe loops. Recovered from Earl Morris' excavation of Room 189 Lower Level, 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.