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 C Element: Complete Manufacturing Notes: Design unfinished and as Joan Gardner (conservator) notes, there is varying degree of line depth. Lots of tool slippage and over cutting. X hatching done on snake body. Not well done - see Phillips & Brown, Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma, 1978, pl 119. Design: Unfinished. Surface Modification: Incised Symbols: Twined snake. Residue: Something dripped down both sides beginning on the distal shell just below the body and directed up toward the apex. The only way this could have happened is if the shell had been filled with something which spilled over the side, at points where the vessel would become shallower. Some of this has peeled off leaving clean shell surface beneath. Use Trace: Residue Comments: Over 1200 g weight. This is puzzling because of the poor quality of the design, bad workmanship, weird residue, and extreme weight.
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: A448793-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dipper
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 33.2 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 18.1 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 13 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 1200 g