Further Notes on Basket Maker Iii Sandals From Northeastern Arizona

Abstract

INCE the publication of a previous article on Basket Maker I11 sandals S (American Anthropologist, Vol. 40, pp. 465-485), there has been discovered in the Arizona State Museum a second collection of Basket Maker I11 sandals.' In view of the fact that the sandals of this period have not been adequately described it was deemed advisable to issue a further report on the sandals of this particular period of Southwestern prehistory. BASKET MAKER I11 SANDAL TYPESThe article2 referred to above listed five distinct types of sandals occurring in the Basket Maker I11 period. These are of sufficient importance to warrant describing them briefly before considering the new material to be presented.Type 1 is round-toed, made of crushed yucca leaves, four leaves being used for the warps. The twined-woven weft is also of crushed yucca leaves. The heel is drawn up into a slight pucker characteristic of the sandals of this period. This is a comparatively rare type of sandal.Type 2 is also round-toed, made of yucca cord in twined weave. The warp is formed of ten or twelve heavy two-strand cords, the weft of finer single strand cord. The warp ends are tied together a t the front and the projecting ends form a slight rounded toe fringe. This type of sandal is attached to the foot by means of heel and toe loops and a tie cord.Type 3 is scallop-toed, made of heavy yucca cords. There are twelve warps of heavy two-strand cord and the twined woven wefts are also of heavy two-strand cord. The warps are doubled in the front section and there is a very shallow scallop across the toe. This seems to be a very rare type, only one sandal so far being known.Type 4 ( fig. 2) is scallop-toed also, but is made of fine cord, the warps ranging from fourteen to thirty-six in number. The twined woven weft is of fine yucca or apocynum cord. The distinguishing features of this type of sandal consist of a scallop across the toe, a puckered heel, a doubled toe section, and raised and colored decoration. This type is the most common and the most characteristic sandal of the Basket Maker I11 period. Both toe and heel loop fastenings and side loop fastenings are used.

Crucible of Pueblos: the early Pueblo period in the northern Southwest

“…79a, andBurgh 1954: fig. 33; see also Baldwin 1939a for Earl Morris's suggestion that this style could date to the late Basketmaker or Pueblo I period). A few unpublished examples of these Type 2 sandals are also present in the collections of the Edge of the Cedars Museum and the University of Pennsylvania Museum.…”