Accession No
Z 41008 B
Description
Section of plant fibre matting or carrier. Lengths of yucca leaf with spines along the edges; secured together with one row of plant fibre twining.
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; Yucca Leaf
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (Amendments / updates)
Catalogue card: 'See Z 40989'
Event Date
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 41008 [A-B]: 'Pieces of yucca leaves bound together'
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: Katrina Dring
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)
Context (Amendments / updates)
Carrier has been added to the description based on the note found with Z 41009, which Bushnell suggested was a carrier.
Event Date 18/3/2025
Author: Katrina Dring
Description (Physical description)
Section of plant fibre matting or carrier. Lengths of yucca leaf with spines along the edges; secured together with one row of plant fibre twining.
Event Date 18/3/2025
Author: Katrina Dring
FM:326121
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