Accession No

Z 41007 C


Description

Bundle of plant fibre cords. Five lengths of cord of varying thickness; individual lengths are S-plied and Z-plied; thinned length is looped and tied in a knot. Bundle held together with copper wire.


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


Cultural Affliation


Material

Plant; Fibre


Local Term


Measurements

195mm


Events

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 41007 [A-C]: 'Plant fibres, stems fanning out into very fine fibres, plus fibres twisted into strings'
Event Date
Author: maa


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)
Bundle of plant fibre cords. Five lengths of cord of varying thickness; individual lengths are S-plied and Z-plied; thinned length is looped and tied in a knot. Bundle held together with copper wire.
Event Date 18/3/2025
Author: Katrina Dring


FM:326116

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