Engraved Conch 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: Craig A Raw Material 2: Busycon sinistrum Element: 2 fragment apical pc. 2 fragment distal pc., 2 body fragments Manufacturing Notes: Very precise incising, except for over cutting on brickwork which would be nearly impossible to avoid. Design: Horizontal layout Surface Modification: Incised Symbols: Barred concentric half circles, broken mace, beaded forelock Residue: Apical frag has yellowish brown outer. Tape on distal frag. Use Trace: Scoured inner Comments: 4 discrete pcs. Phillips and Brown 1983, Pl. 168 (Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma. Vols IV-VI). Wide wristlets, teeth show in frontal view of face. Beaded forelock. Long bands of alternating brickwork and narrow closely space || lines extend out from the figure. Naturalistic hand. Smallest frag probably from another vessel, but has similar pattern.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Apr 2020
label: Site Number
content: 34LF40
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
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: A448880-26
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dipper
physicalDescription: label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 230.8 g
label: Maximum Length - Object
content: ca. 15.6 cm
label: Maximum Width - Object
content: ca. 10.42 cm