Accession No
1937.714 B
Description
Fragment of cordage of twisted fibre, dark brown in colour with a knotted end. Z-piled cordage.
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
Fibre; ?Aloe; ?Yucca
Local Term
Measurements
Events
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: Genevieve Holt
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 (Related Documents)
The catalogue card for 1937.714 [A-C] describes these as " strick".
Event Date 1937
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Samples of thick string probably of Maguey Fibre
Event Date 1937
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Fragment of cordage of twisted fibre, dark brown in colour with a knotted end. Z-piled cordage.
Event Date 19/3/2025
Author: Genevieve Holt
FM:326193
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