Conch Shell Dipper, Engraved
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: Braden A Raw Material 2: Busycon sinistrum Element: Apical and body fragment, distal missing. Alteration: Weathered Manufacturing Notes: Deep grooves, excision in center of snake bodies, running along their lengths. Design: Fills space. Surface Modification: Incised, excised Symbols: Intertwined snakes (amphisbaena), bird-like characteristics of heads, long tongue, x-hatching on bodies, stepped motif on bodies. Residue: Deeply colored grooves and some of the sediment in them was analyzed by CAL - charcoal. Bit of yellow brown stain on inner of detached fragment. Use Trace: Punched hole right on top of body (or bottom of vessel) - punched from outside in - hole is unweathered, killed? Pitted surface in spots. Comments: Grooves separate the 2 designs running the lengths of the snake bodies. Apex is separate frag adhered, separate fragment A448880 has portion of left edge.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Oct 2015
label: Site Number
content: 34LF40
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Spiro, Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Prehistoric
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 272249
label: USNM Number
content: A448791-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dipper
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 28.7 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 18.5 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 11 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 821.8 g