Rope, Woven Item Number: 45SK59B/33 from the The Burke: University of Washington
Multi-strands grouped into two twisted lenths, then twisted together rope-like.Object consists of several rope lenths folded together and tied with old "shelf number" tag. Rehoused 4/2004. New tag with #33 was on object, don't know when it was attached. I left this tag and the shelf tag mentioned above on the object. Also incldes attached bag of debris from object. Description on #33 Basketry card is vauge and may not match this object. B. Avery. Information from field Basketry Card (see Archaeology Archives): Description: rope Handles: n/a Rim: n/a Body: 50 cm in length - Appears to be constructed of two small branches twisted around each other. Cut: 7N - 6E Horiz. Loc.: 255S - 7N - 180E - 6E Depth: 64 cm Width of individual branches: Max: .70 Min: .54 Mean: .63 Max: .70 Min: .50 Mean: .59 Remarks: Material kind of twisty.
University of Washington Field Party Expedition
Date notes: 670 +/- 75 BP
North America Northwest Coast Pacific Northwest Puget Sound Skagit County Washington State Western United States Western Washington
a:Width(max width of sticks), b:0.060 cm, b:Width(min width of sticks)