Accession No
1937.740 K
Description
Hide Fragment; Receptacle; Container - Fragments of hide, buffalo, etc.
K: a fragment has a narrow strip, fixing it to form a receptacle
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
1937.740 K
Cultural Affliation
Material
Skin; Buffalo Hide
Local Term
Measurements
Events
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
FM:326150
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