Sinew (Other Keyword)

PROJECT Lori Reed. Laurie Webster.

Digital images of pottery and perishable items recovered from Earl Morris' excavations of Aztec West Ruin between 1916 and 1922. Although Morris' excavations at Aztec were extensive, his analysis and descriptions of the artifact assemblage were cursory. In 2003, Laurie Webster and Lori Stephens Reed began systematic analysis, documentation, and digital imaging of pottery and perishables from Morris' Aztec West Ruin collections housed at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only George C. Frison.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Dick Baugh.

J. Whittaker: Experiments with sinew and sinew backings.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dick Baugh.

J. Whittaker: Experiments with sinew – says it shrinks 3%.

IMAGE Laurie Webster.

Twisted Sinew, Accession AZRU-00008, Catalog #1808. Morris FS 4095. Analyzed by Laurie Webster, 2006. Long strand of 2S-Z sinew or possibly hide, tied in square knot. Perhaps a bowstring. Measurements: L 41.0 CM. Images: AZRU8-1808A: twisted sinew or hide, 2s-Z. Recovered from Earl Morris' excavation of Room 153-2, Aztec West Ruin. Concerning Room 153-2 Morris reports that “The refuse deposit in Room 153 was in reality a continuation of that in Room 136, just as the latter was an extension...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Diana Ewing.

The production and functional properties of sinew thread are integral to the creation of Arctic Clothing. I focus on the creation of sinew thread from tendons and how production techniques affect thread usability in clothing production. Specifically, the strength and pliability of sinew thread. My reproduction of sinew threads is modeled upon the sinew used in extant Western Arctic garments in the collection of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. The strength of sinew thread is compared...

DOCUMENT Citation Only B K Isenman.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only George C. Frison.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.