Accession No
1928.547 D
Description
One fragment of a stone knife or a scraper, rectangular-shaped; possibly made of dark dolomite.
Place
Americas; North America; United States of America; Texas; Brewster County; Study Butte Mine
Period
?Palaeo-Indian ?Archaic ?Historic
Source
Clarke, Louis Colville Gray [collector and donor]; Negley, Walter [collector]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1928.547 D
Cultural Affliation
Material
Stone
Local Term
Measurements
65mm
Events
Context (Related Documents)
Label found in box with this object reads: 'near STUDE BUTE Mine. S.W. Texas.'
Event Date
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones
Context (Field collection)
Found below point of a hill, long used Indian camp, amongst boulders, many grinding holes in rocks. Picked up by Walter Negley and Louis Clarke near Stude Bute [sic - Study Butte] Mine in S.W. Texas, not far north of Rio Grande, likely in August or September 1928 (see 1928.574).
Event Date 1928
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Description for 1928.547 A-D: 'Parts of rectangular knives. A: Nearly complete. B: Apparently complete (really a scraper). C: Small fragment. D: Fragment of large one.'
Event Date 1928
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
One fragment of a stone knife or a scraper, rectangular-shaped; possibly made of dark dolomite.
Event Date 24/3/2025
Author: Elia Quijano Quinones
FM:326336
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