Perishable: Plaited Sandal AMNH 29.0/5292

Plaited Sandal, Accession AMNH29.0, Catalog #5292. Morris FS 42. Analyzed by Laurie Webster, 2006. Wide, plaited sandal, yucca, 2/2 twill. Images: AMNH 29.0/5292A: wide 2/2 plaited sandal, upper face. AMNH 29.0/5292B: wide 2-2 plaited sandal, lower face. Recovered from Earl Morris' excavation of Room122-2, Aztec West Ruin. Morris (1928:357) indicates that “Room 122-2 is situated above Room 112. Refuse, more than half of its bulk composed of vegetable and other perishable substances, had been thrown in through the door connecting with the room above Room 110, forming a fan-shaped deposit, 2 feet deep, beneath the door and dwindling out in the northeast and northwest corners. Being in an outer tier, the slope above Room 122-2, was very steep, providing excellent drainage, which condition, together with the air space beneath the floor, had excluded all moisture from the refuse. This mass, of Chaco age, contained a fine assortment of textiles and other perishable artifacts (29.0-5251-5400), such as in most places is entirely decayed. The conspicuous components of the deposit, other than manufactured articles, were shreds of cedarbark, cornhusks, and cobs, strips of yucca leaf in great abundance, excrement, ashes, and floor sweepings.” 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.本数据集对应遗物为编织凉鞋，馆藏编号AMNH29.0，目录号5292，莫里斯编号FS 42。该遗物于2006年由劳里·韦伯斯特（Laurie Webster）完成分析。其为宽幅编织凉鞋，材质为丝兰（Yucca），采用2/2斜纹（2/2 twill）编织工艺。 相关图像资料：AMNH 29.0/5292A：宽幅2/2斜纹编织凉鞋的正面；AMNH 29.0/5292B：宽幅2/2斜纹编织凉鞋的底面（原文此处标注为2-2，应为2/2笔误）。 该遗物出土于厄尔·莫里斯（Earl Morris）对阿兹特克西遗址（Aztec West Ruin）122-2号房间的发掘工作。莫里斯（1928：357）曾记载："122-2号房间坐落于112号房间上方。通过与110号房间上方房间相连的门，大量垃圾被倾倒于此，这类垃圾体积占比超一半，主要成分为植物类及其他易腐物质，在门下方形成了厚达2英尺的扇形堆积，并向东北、西北角落逐渐变薄。由于该房间位于遗址外围区域，其上方坡面极为陡峭，具备极佳的排水条件，加之地板下方存在空气层，使得该垃圾堆积完全隔绝了水汽。这批属于查科时期（Chaco age）的遗存中，包含了种类丰富的纺织品与其他易腐人工制品（编号范围29.0-5251至5400），这类遗存多数区域已完全腐朽。除加工制品外，该堆积中的显著组分还包括雪松树皮碎屑、玉米苞叶与玉米芯、大量丝兰叶条、粪便、灰烬以及地板清扫杂物。" 参考文献：厄尔·莫里斯，1928年，《阿兹特克遗址发掘笔记》，第26卷第五部分，美国自然历史博物馆人类学论文集，纽约。