Title: Basketry Sandal
Basketry Sandal, 1000 BC – AD 500, Artist Unknown, Ancestral Pueblo
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology, 53779/11
Photography by Addison Doty
The maker of this yucca-twined sandal dyed particular sections of their warps blue and red, creating striped and triangular decorative motifs alongside leather fringe. The shoe’s silhouette style, with a square toe and heel, is characteristic of the Basketmaker Period, and the worn-out heel suggests that this piece and its pair were well-loved by their owner.
Credit: Addison Doty
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