Accession No
1937.741 E-H
Description
Four pieces of worked animal bone, possibly trigger awls; incomplete. One awl is charred, the rest looks semi-polished, with small vertical scratches throughout the surface.
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
Bone
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: Elia Quijano Quinones
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 1937.741 [A-N]: '14 pieces of bone.'
Event Date 1937
Author: maa
Context (CMS Context)
For 1937.741 [A-N]: 'Original card missing.'
Event Date 14/4/1994
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Description for 1937.741 [A-N]: 'Includes worked and polished bone and two pieces of burnt bone.'
Event Date 1/12/2003
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones
Description (Physical description)
Four pieces of worked animal bone, possibly trigger awls; incomplete. One awl is charred, the rest looks semi-polished, with small vertical scratches throughout the surface.
Event Date 20/3/2025
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones
FM:326199
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