Engraved Shell Dipper Frag.
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: Distal and shoulder fragments joined. Manufacturing Notes: Small designs mean small intricate engraving. Design: 4 dancers arranged in all directions. Surface Modification: Incised Symbols: By Joan Gardner, conservator. Bi-lobed arrow, face mask, beaded forelocks, tattoo or elab garments, rayed headdress, columella pendant, hair bun, agnathous head in headdress, Falcon eye in tattoos, diamond shaped eyes. Residue: Faint brown patchy inner, dirt, pink stain inner. Use Trace: Apex gone. Comments: Very elaborate design including convexo-cylindrical beads w/ columella in necklace, concentric half ovals on arms. Parent is distal frag A448829, shoulder frag is A448837. Phillips & Brown 1978 Pl. 2A,B (Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma. Vols I-III).
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
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 272249
label: USNM Number
content: A448829-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dipper
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 23.7 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 15 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 11.2 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 435.8 g