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Note on an Apocynum Fabric

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Lila M. O'Neale
Lila M. O'Neale*
Affiliation:
Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, California
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Extract

A textile specimen in the University of California Museum of Anthropology, perhaps to be identified as a sling pocket, adds a new item to the growing list of fabrications made of twisted dogbane fiber (Apocynum cannabinum).It is, moreover, constructed by a technique not to my knowledge previously reported. I am indebted to Professor Robert F. Heizer for calling my attention to this unique object and for the following paragraphs placing it in its relation to Nevada archeology.

“The piece comes from a dry cave site (Humboldt Cave) in west central Nevada about 10 miles southwest of Lovelock Cave. The cave was excavated in 1936 by the University of California Department of Anthropology, and the final report on the excavation is now nearly completed.

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Facts and Comments
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , October 1947 , pp. 179 - 180
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1947

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References

1 Loud, L. L., and Harrington, M. R., “Lovelock Cave,” University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnolog., Vol. 25, No. 1, Berkeley, 1929.Google Scholar