Accession No
1937.753 B
Description
Sixteen thin, oblong pieces of wood, some of which worked into pointed tips. Most with one end broken off and missing, three with burnt and sooted end.
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
1937.753 B
Cultural Affliation
Material
Wood; Plant
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: maa
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 1937.753 [A-C]: 'Pieces of wood and cane (or very thick grass). Some of these seem to have been prepared for using as fire making objects.'
Event Date 1937
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Sixteen thin, oblong pieces of wood, some of which worked into pointed tips. Most with one end broken off and missing, three with burnt and sooted end.
Event Date 21/3/2025
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung
FM:326238
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