Human Effigy Pipe
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: Effigy Period: Middle Mississippian Raw Material 2: Oolitic Luster: Dull Shape/form: Human Alteration: Weathered Manufacturing Notes: Traces obliterated by leaching/weathering. No original surface remains. Design: Kneeling human holding elbow pipe. Symbols: Human Residue: Only the very base of bore hole has soot. Use Trace: Soot. Right hand and wrist are broken away. Head is creased as though struck w/a tool, perhaps this is excavation damage. Comments: Similar stylistically to 448663, except that arms encircle the elbow pipe w/hands clasped in front. Stem extends out from abdomen so smoker faces the figure. Pipe stem and bowl are realistic stem and bowl, instead of the bowl being shaped like a ceramic pot. Figure is raised up on forelegs so that there is a space between the legs on the base. Feet are turned inward w/toes pointing toward the spine. This would not be a comfortable way to sit. Figure wears hair pulled back into an occipital bun. Head is tilted backwards so that it extends beyond the line formed by the spine. Ergo, length measurement is total horiz distance from back of head to front of stem. Body length is 8 cm.
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: A448664-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 10.2 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 8.24 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 14.1 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 849.3 g
label: Bowl Height
content: ca. 2.95 cm
label: Bowl Diameter
content: ca. 2.99 cm
label: Bore Diameter
content: ca. 2.35 cm
label: Stem Length
content: ca. 4.1 cm