Perishable: Twined Sandal AMNH 29.0/7629

Twined Sandal, Accession AMNH29.0, Catalog #7629. Morris FS 1222. Analyzed by Laurie Webster, 2006. Twined sandal with raised design, jogged toe, and toe loops, 2-strand twining (S). Images: AMNH 29.0/7629A: twined sandal, upper face. AMNH 29.0/7629B: twined sandal, lower face. AMNH 29.0/7629C: twined sandal, lower face under raking light. AMNH 29.0/7629D: close-up of lower face showing raised design. AMNH 29.0/7629E: close-up of heel finish, lower face. AMNH 29.0/7629F: close-up of heel finish, upper face. AMNH 29.0/7629G: close-up of toe end showing cotton toe loops and jogged toe construction. AMNH 29.0/7629H: close-up of toe end showing jogged toe construction, lower face. AMNH 29.0/7629I: close-up of cotton-braid toe loops. 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.