Context (Display)
Display label found in box with this object reads: ' U.S.A. THE BASKET MAKERS Pre-pottery agricultural people of the Southwest Approx dates A.D. 1-500 Material mainly from the rock-shelter at Bee Cave, Brewster, Texas. Clarke gift'.
Event Date
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones

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 1937.740 A-K: 'Fragments of hide, buffalo, etc. K: a fragment has a narrow strip, fixing it to form a receptacle.'
Event Date 1937
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
One fragment of hide, possibly from buffalo, folded in half in the form of a triangle. It has some small holes throughout the surface, likely for stitching. One of the edges has two holes still bind together by a string made also from the same hide, and knotted on one end. Light-cream colour with some dark stains throughout the surface.
Event Date 19/3/2025
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones