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: Craig C Raw Material 2: Busycon sinistrum Element: Complete apex and body - distal missing. Alteration: Weathered Manufacturing Notes: Bold deep incising - similar artistry to A448794. Design: Two men - busk - large motif. Surface Modification: Incised Symbols: Forked pole, speech scrolls, beaded forelock, projection from back of head, sash, lines at knees, ankles, wrists, split semicircle neck ornament, typical facial tattoo. Perforated pulley earspool. Residue: Area of decayed organic matter (Joan Gardner, conservator, wonders brown burial accretion?) or altered surface outside on right. Use Trace: Inside not scoured, no striae. Comments: Little detail ( as per Craig C) Bird heads on belts are pointed downward and have no detail. 3 banns of || lines on staff. Trifurcate speech scrolls. On this and prev. cat # the man on the right has a long jaw line, the one on the left a short one. See Phillips and Brown, Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma,1983, PL 317 for discussion of meaning.
label: Notes
content: Mississippian Period (AD 900 - 1500).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 25 Nov 2019
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
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 272249
label: USNM Number
content: A448795-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dipper
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 28.1 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 20.2 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 12.7 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 1016 g