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 B Raw Material 2: Busycon sinistrum Element: Complete Manufacturing Notes: Knobs left intact. Drilled holes in distal tip and in apex near rim of vessel. Deep well executed incising w/no tool slippage and smooth curves. Design: Interlace pattern, separate distal design Surface Modification: Incised Symbols: Horned snake, human head, beaded forelock, roach, mace, broken bones, skulls, barred oval, hand w/ concentric circle. Residue: Red stain on outer surface. Use Trace: Residue. Comments: 3 heads w/ forelock & 1 skull w/ long protruding tongue. Joan Gardner (conservator) notes that skull has a rayed concentric 1/2 circle on the back of the head which she wonders might represent injury. She wonders if rays could signify blood. Distal area has a scalloped band below a band w/ concentric circle. Deep wide excision separates these 2 from the rest of the design. Snake is coiled around the spiral. 2 broken long bones placed symmetrically on either side of the skull (it faces left). Odd hand design looks as though a mistake in rendering fingers was made.
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: A448790-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dipper
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 26.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 15.8 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 11.8 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 565.4 g
label: Bore Diameter
content: ca. 0.4 cm