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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