Split cane baskets & mat fragment, leather lined, beads, cloth
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: Twill Shape/Form: Rectangular Manufacturing Notes: Twill with variations on a basic 3-3-1 scheme. Appears to be rectangular basket w/ raised sides about 10 cm or so high. Design: Covered basket Residue: Fabric, copper, beads, leather. Fabric in bottom has imprint of many strings of disc beads. Use Trace: Has collapsed in on itself, but the selvage or basket rim is present on 3 sides. Left side is damaged. Extra basket fragment w/edge sits on top, covers some of the beads. Comments: A stunning piece of work, this retains much of what it must have looked like when recovered. The basket is flat, true, but not that badly crushed. Could not have had much weight on it to be in this good a condition. See other sub nos. for itemization of contents. Part 1.1 of 8
label: Notes
content: Style: Braided Twist: Z Raw Material 2: Rabbit Element: Fragment of bundle Shape/Form: Irregular Manufacturing Notes: Hard to make out the original form of the cloth because this is wadded up and smashed under the weight of the other objects that were in the basket. Along one edge, running along basket selvage is a braided tassel, this is really the only part for which has a clear style. Residue: Shell beads, copper. Traces Cu on shells on fabric but no hunks of Cu - these are beneath the basket. Use Trace: Bundled and placed in rectangular basket. Comments: Appears to be the layer placed first into the basket (basket sits on copper frags). Part 1.2 of 8
label: Notes
content: Style: Disc Manufacturing Notes: Biconical holes. Residue: Cu, fibers Use Trace: Strung on a yarn and laid in a basket. Comments: Bead count is estimated. I counted what I could see, but there are other beads hidden. The string that these were originally on has been preserved in spots. It appears to be of a vegetal yarn, but this is not certain. There are other beads in the context - they are in a small box and are numbered 448934s02. Part 1.3 of 8
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Oct 2015
label: Site Number
content: 34LF40
label: Specimen Count
content: 500
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: A448934-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Basket
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object Basket
content: ca. 54 cm
label: Width - Object Basket
content: ca. 29 cm
label: Fiber Width Basket
content: ca. 0.3 cm
label: Length - Object Cloth
content: ca. 41 cm
label: Width - Object Cloth
content: ca. 18 cm
label: Length - Object Bead
content: ca. 0.27 cm
label: Width - Object Bead
content: ca. 0.5 cm