Accession No
Z 41025 B
Description
Two small gastropod shells.
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
Shell
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (Related Documents)
Two handwritten notes in cardboard box with object. the first one reading in blue crayon: 'Burial # 114. Trench # 2. Bone - Cloth - matting. with squash seeds - shells - wood.', the other reading in blue crayon: 'Squash seed & maize cobs with traces of a textile wrapping adhering to some specimens'.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung
Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 41025 [A-C]: 'Squash seeds, fragments of maize cobs, textile, matting and shells.'
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (Field collection)
Burial 114, Trench 2. 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)
Two small gastropod shells.
Event Date 19/3/2025
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung
FM:326170
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