Pierced & Engraved Shell Gorget
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 B Raw Material 2: Pleuroploca gigantea kiener Element: Fragment from body of shell = top of gorget Alteration: Reuse Manufacturing Notes: Cut away probably goes w/ inner design Surface Modification: Incised Symbols: Inner - forked eye & bird tail, Outer - Amphisbaena type tongue. Use Trace: Possible reuse (although Phillips & Brown in Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma, Pl 1983, 274 & 1978:VI discuss the possibility that this was meant to be thin way- w/2 faces) Comments: Workmanship is different on ea side. Rare example of 2 utilized faces on unusual shell (Pleuroploca).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Nov 2021
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: A448746-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Gorget
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 9.96 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 6.16 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 28.5 g