Perishable: Plaited Sandal AZRU8-2823

Plaited Sandal, Accession AZRU-00008, Catalog #2823. Morris FS 5299. Analyzed by Laurie Webster, 2006. Finely woven 2/2 plaited sandal with toe jog. Heel missing. Ends of yucca elements protrude on underside. No evidence of toe or heel attachments. Perhaps unfinished. Measurements: L 20.2, W 10.0 CM. Images: AZRU8-2823 A: finely plaited sandal with toe jog. AZRU8-2823 B: other face showing protruding elements. AZRU8-2823 C: view of protruding elements at toe. AZRU8-2823 D: detail of elements protruding from toe end. 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.