Context (Other owners)
Mrs and Mr. R.B. Alves are mentioned in Edwin Coffin's 1932 publication (Archaeological Exploration of a Rock Shelter in Brewster County, Texas. Museum of the American Indian Notes and Monographs, no. 48.) in his acknowledgements. It is likely that it is Mrs Alves' excavations in the Hueco mountains that Coffin alludes to in his earlier, 1929 publication (Coffin, Edwin F. (1929). ‘Notes’. Indian Notes, vol. 6(4)), in which he records '... visiting certain caves in the Hueco mountains, northeast of El Paso, which had been promiscuously dug in late years and considerable collections gathered therefrom' (p. 407). Coffin's own excavations of rock shelters in Texas, jointly supported by the Museum of the American Indian and MAA, took place from February-June 1929, after the Alves material had already been donated to MAA.
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Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
Found in a dry cave in Hueco Mountains, 29 miles N.E. of El Paso. Excavated by Mrs Alves.
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Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1928.742 A-B: 'Two "rabbit sticks" (boomerangs)'
Event Date 1928
Author: maa

Context (Display)
Exhibited: in Basketmaker Archaeology drawer, August 1981.
Event Date 1981
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Wooden throwing stick. Worked into a rectangular cross-section with slightly curved faces, the shaft is curved inwards at both ends, with sections of four incised lines on both faces. One end is broken off, the other is slightly curved with lashing marks visible. Outer dark surface has been scratched or rubbed away in [arts, with light zigzag marks on one edge.
Event Date 20/3/2025
Author: Clare McKenna