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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