Perishable: Twined Sandal AMNH 29.0/7627

Twined Sandal, Accession AMNH29.0, Catalog #7627. Morris FS 1220. Analyzed by Laurie Webster, 2006. Sandal of 2-strand twining (S), raised design, and toe-heel tie system. Images: AMNH 29.0/7627A: twined sandal with toe-heel tie system, upper face. AMNH 29.0/7627B: twined sandal, lower face. AMNH 29.0/7627C: close-up of underside of heel finish. AMNH 29.0/7627D: close-up of toe-heel tie system, upper face. AMNH 29.0/7627E: underside of twined sandal showing raised designs under raking light. AMNH 29.0/7627F: underside of twined sandal showing raised designs. AMNH 29.0/7627G: close-up of upper face of heel finish. AMNH 29.0/7627H: close-up of upper face of heel finish showing seam joined with square knots. AMNH 29.0/7627I: close-up of upper face of heel finish. Note seam joined with square knots at left. AMNH 29.0/7627J: close-up of outer face of heel finish. Note seam at right. AMNH 29.0/7627K: close-up of raised design on lower face, showing oblique appearance of raised bumps. 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.