1937.44.14

Collection type

Object

Description

Fragment of rush matting

Long description

Fragment of 2/2 twill plaiting, mounted in glass. [LM]

Geographical reference

United States of America

Northern America > North America > United States of America

Southern USA Texas Brewster County Bee Cave Canyon

Person

Field collector Edwin Coffin

Field collector Louis Colville Gray Clarke

PRM source Louis Colville Gray Clarke

Date / Period

Archaeological period: Southwest Archaeological period: Ancestral Pueblo

Date collected

By 1937

Acquisition information

Donated: 1937

Materials and processes

Material Plant Fibre, Process Twill Plaited, Process Basketry

Dimensions

Length: max 179 mm mount

Object numbers

Accession number: 1937.44.14

Research and responses

There are 61 other artefacts from this site in Cambridge's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, accessioned there also in 1937.

I can find no reference to a Ber Cave Canyon in Brewster Co. but there is a Bee Cave Canyon in Brewster Texas that was excavated between 1928 and 1929 by the Museum of the American Indian in conjunction with the University of Cambridge where Louis Colville Gray Clarke was director of the Fitzwilliam from 1937. This site also yielded a considerable amount of perishable materials, which is also a major part of the material from Brewster County that Clarke sent to the PRM. It is likely therefore that the site should be Bee Cave Not Ber Cave. [AS 22/04/2009].

Associated publications

Coffin, Edwin F. 1932 Archaeological Exploration of a Rock Shelter in Brewster County, Texas. Monograph No. 48, Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, New York. See http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/trans-p/images/ap6.html. [AS 23/04/2008]

Search terms: Furniture Dwelling, Basketry, Specimen, Mat