Accession No
1937.753 C
Description
21 pieces of reed, with cut-marked ends or frayed broken off. One completely burnt and sooted, two others with one burnt 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
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Material
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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)
21 pieces of reed, with cut-marked ends or frayed broken off. One completely burnt and sooted, two others with one burnt end.
Event Date 21/3/2025
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung
FM:326239
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