Accession No
1937.703 R
Description
Small sample of basketry now mounted within glass. It contains an edge fragment of thick light brown fibres in plain checker weave, with two diagonal edges and a short section between.
Place
Americas; North America; United States of America; Texas; Brewster County; Bee Cave Canyon
Period
Basketmaker Culture
Source
Clarke, Louis Colville Gray [donor]; Coffin, Edwin [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1937.703 R
Cultural Affliation
Material
Fibre; Glass
Local Term
Measurements
130mm
Events
Context (Field collection)
From a rock shelter at Bee Cave Canyon. Excavated by Edwin F. Coffin, Museum of the American Indian, in partnership with the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, February to June 1929. See archive (FR5/1/9).
Event Date 1929
Author: maa
Context (References)
Coffin, Edwin F. (1932). 'Archaeological Exploration of a Rock Shelter in Brewster County, Texas'. Museum of the American Indian Notes and Monographs, no. 48. New York: Heye Foundation
Event Date 1932
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
Description for 1937.703 A-W: '23 pieces of basketry mounted between glass. Each one embodies the border of a "plain weave" design.'
Event Date 1937
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Small sample of basketry now mounted within glass. It contains an edge fragment of thick light brown fibres in plain checker weave, with two diagonal edges and a short section between.
Event Date 12/3/2025
Author: Clare McKenna
FM:325926
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