Perishable: Twined Sandal AMNH 29.0/7646

Twined Sandal, Accession AMNH29.0, Catalog #7646. Morris FS 1239. Analyzed by Laurie Webster, 2006. Coarse twined sandal, yucca, 2-strand twining (S). Images: AMNH 29.0/7646A: coarse twined sandal, upper face. AMNH 29.0/7646B: coarse twined sandal, lower face. 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.缠结编结凉鞋，馆藏号AMNH29.0，目录编号7646，编号Morris FS 1239。2006年由劳里·韦伯斯特（Laurie Webster）完成分析。该藏品为粗编缠结凉鞋，材质为丝兰（yucca），采用双股缠结工艺（S型缠结）。 影像资料：AMNH 29.0/7646A：粗编缠结凉鞋正面；AMNH 29.0/7646B：粗编缠结凉鞋背面。 该藏品出土于厄尔·莫里斯（Earl Morris）对阿兹特克西遗址（Aztec West Ruin）48号房间的发掘现场。 厄尔·莫里斯在发掘时对48号房间的描述如下："地面遍布废弃堆积物，其中绝大多数为植物有机质遗存，包括玉米秆、玉米苞叶、雄花穗及玉米芯、雪松树皮、该木材的碎块，以及人类排泄物。这套查科时期（Chaco age）的堆积完全未受潮气侵蚀，除德尔穆尔特峡谷洞穴中出土的同类遗存外，这是笔者从业以来所见保存最为完好的易腐人工制品窖藏。在支撑二层地板的木梁坍塌前，这套堆积物已向下渗透至二层。该木梁的坍塌发生在土丘最终成型之后的近代，从其坍塌后上方堆积物沉降形成的不规则弹坑遗迹中可得到佐证"（莫里斯，1928年：307-308）。 参考文献：厄尔·莫里斯，1928年，《阿兹特克遗址发掘笔记》，第26卷第五分册，《美国自然历史博物馆人类学论文集》，纽约。