Accession No
1937.739 B
Description
Twelve pieces of red stone, possibly jasper; and one piece of quartz.
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
Stone; ?Jasper
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
Description (Physical description)
Accession Register in a later hand for 1937.739 [A-B]: 'Piece of wood with bark on.' and then 'Various stones!'
Event Date
Author: maa
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)
Context (Other)
Original card missing
Event Date 1/12/2003
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Twelve pieces of red stone, possibly jasper; and one piece of quartz.
Event Date 20/3/2025
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones
FM:326223
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