Engraved Conch Shell Dipper Frag.
date: label: Accession Date
content: 30 Dec 1966
name: label: Collector
content: Richard K. Meyer
label: Donor Name
content: Richard K. Meyer
label: Site Name
content: Craig Mound
notes: label: Notes
content: Style: Craig B Raw Material 2: Busycon sinistrum Element: Apical and body fragments Manufacturing Notes: Nice composition and workmanship. Surface Modification: Incised Symbols: Snakes, claws. Residue: On 2 unrefit frags, pigment in grooves. Comments: Included are 2 refitted frags along w/2 having similar designs but not refitted. In the picture in Phillips and Brown 1983, 227 (Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma. Vols VI-VI), 2 fragments from 448880 are shown, and these are not the ones in the box here but rather, 2 different fragments entirely. The 2 pieces not shown in Phillips & Brown are similar in design, but I'm not sure they refit the same shell. 5/92 - 2 frags located from 448880 and placed in box w/this shell as per Phillips and Brown 1983.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Aug 2016
label: Site Number
content: 34LF40
label: Specimen Count
content: 4
place: label: Place
content: Spiro, Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Prehistoric
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 272249
label: USNM Number
content: A448848-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dipper
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 13.4 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 12.8 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 6 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 188.4 g