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


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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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