Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten note with object reading in pencil: 'Burial. 173. Textile. This seems originally to have been a bundle of material possibly distorted during excavation and certainly during transit. As far as could be seen the finger was wrapped in cloth along with the maize-cob this was again wrapped in matting and the whole with the piece of wood laid on or in a coarse basket. There are traces of more skin and meat than can be accounted for by the presence of the remains of one finger so presumably this group may represent part of a hand which was wrapped up just under the skin of the corpse - as was the case with burial 198.' [see Z 41022 A for photo]
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Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 41022 [A-D]: 'Fragments of textile and bone. [Human]'
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Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Burial 173. 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)
85 fragments of cloth and basketry made from unknown plant fibres, including at least 50 fragments of a plain checker weave cloth with fine fibre, and at least 13 fragments of 2x2 twill basketry. The other fragments cannot be clearly identified and appear to have merged together.
Event Date 17/3/2025
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung