Accession No
1937.704 I
Description
One fragment of plain checker weave basketry from an unknown, thick fibre of orange brown colour covered with a black residue. Rectangular in shape with frayed edges and no visible borders. Now mounted between two glass plates.
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
1937.704 I
Cultural Affliation
Material
Fibre
Local Term
Measurements
122mm
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 1937.704 A-J: 'Ten pieces of basketry mounted between glass. No borders are visible and the design is a "plain weave".'
Event Date 1937
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
One fragment of plain checker weave basketry from an unknown, thick fibre of orange brown colour covered with a black residue. Rectangular in shape with frayed edges and no visible borders. Now mounted between two glass plates.
Event Date 12/3/2025
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung
FM:325954
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