Accession No
1937.707 G
Description
Three fragments from the same plain checker weave basketry, mounted between two pieces of glass. Warp and weft made of dark brown plant fibre. One fragment has a straight finished edge visible. Two pieces have long strands of plant fibre warp protruding from the rest of the fragment.
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
1937.707 G
Cultural Affliation
Material
Fibre
Local Term
Measurements
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 1937.707 A-I: 'Nine pieces of basketry mounted between glass. Each one embodies the border of a "plain weave" design.'
Event Date 1937
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Three fragments from the same plain checker weave basketry, mounted between two pieces of glass. Warp and weft made of dark brown plant fibre. One fragment has a straight finished edge visible. Two pieces have long strands of plant fibre warp protruding from the rest of the fragment.
Event Date 14/3/2025
Author: Genevieve Holt
FM:326040
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