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S andals of the B asketmaker and P ueblo P eoples L˜° ° S˛˝ ˙ˆˇ Tˆ˘ g˝ ˆ was curator of archaeology at the Arizona State Museum in Tucson before her retirement from that institution in 2002. She is also the author of Textiles in Southwestern Prehistory (UNM Press). Doˇot˛ ˜ K. Was˛ b˝ ˇ ° is a consulting scholar in the American Section, Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania . She is the author of Embedded Symmetries, Natural and Cultural (UNM Press). j˘cket ˛ otos: Lynn Shuler Teague ˛ oto of L˜° ° S ˛ ˝ ˙ˆˇ Tˆ˘g˝ ˆ: George A. Teague ˛ oto of Doˇot˛ ˜ K. W˘ s˛ b˝ ˇ ° : Anne W. Washburn j˘ckˆt dˆsig° : Catherine Leonardo Sandals of the Basketmaker and Pueblo Peoples FABRIC STRUCTURE AND COLOR SYMMETRY Lynn Shuler Teague and Dorothy K. Washburn Anthropology • American Indians • Southwest The decorated ÿber sandals worn by prehistoric southwesterners with their complex fabric structures and designs have been studied, dissected, described, and interpreted for almost a century. Nevertheless, these artifacts remain mysterious in many respects. This book examines sandals as sources of information on the history of the people known as the Basketmakers and later the Ancestral Puebloans. The authors explore whether the characteristics of these unique objects resulted from migration, or the movement of ideas from one group to another, or the constant process of adaptation by local peoples. Teague locates the probable antecedents of the fabric structures used in making these sandals, considering woven assemblages from sites throughout those parts of the western United States and northern Mexico where plant ÿber sandals were made: the Great Basin, California, the southwestern United States, and northern Mexico. Washburn explores the distinctive two-color design system that ÿrst appears in Basketmaker II sandals and reaches a high point in decorative complexity in the extraordinary color-banded designs on scalloped toe/ puckered heel forms in Basketmaker III. The appearance of the BM III color-banded style coincides with a period of profound changes centering on the transition to sedentary maize agriculture. She proposes that the two-color designs visualize the color directional symbolism of the sunrises and sunsets at the winter and summer solstices. Teague’s and Washburn’s discoveries about fabric technologies and design systems enable them to propose new migration paths and to speculate on the cosmological ideas expressed in the designs on these sandals and on the relationship of those ideas to the coming of the corn lifeway to the Colorado Plateau. 353306 780826 9 ISBN 978-0-8263-5330-6 90000 isbn 978-0-8263-5330-6 UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS unmpress.com | 800-249-7737 Teague and Washburn Amajor contribution to the descriptive literature on Southwest sandal technologies (especially Basketmaker). It provides a new way of thinking about the origin, spread, and meaning of these unique forms, including the possible stimulus (farming) that may be responsible for their presence in the Southwest.” —C˘t˛ ˆˇ ° ˆ Fow˙ˆˇ , coauthor of ˜ e Great Basin: People and Place in Ancient Times Building from sandal construction and design color and symmetry, the authors develop an ambitious and plausible argument for the location of the Uto-Aztecan homeland, subsequent migrations, and eventual destinations. Beautifully illustrated and well written.” —M˘ x ° ˆ McBˇ ° ° , author of Social Identities Among Archaic Mobile Hunters and Gatherers in the American Southwest “ “ ...

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