Accession No

Z 41025 C


Description

A total of at least 182 plant pieces comprising squash seeds, gourd, maize cobs, and wood, including a minimum of 160 squash seeds and seed fragments, fourteen dried gourd fragments, five maize cob fragments, and three pieces of wood.


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


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Cultural Affliation


Material

Plant; Wood


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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)
A total of at least 182 plant pieces comprising squash seeds, gourd, maize cobs, and wood, including a minimum of 160 squash seeds and seed fragments, fourteen dried gourd fragments, five maize cob fragments, and three pieces of wood.
Event Date 19/3/2025
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


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