Double-Pointed Quartzite Blade
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1958
name: label: Donor Name
content: Harry M. Trowbridge
label: Site Name
content: Craig Mound
notes: label: Notes
content: Original Catalog Number: 2914-1 Style: Fusi-Elliptical or Ramey Luster: Crystal Shape/Form: Fusi-Elliptical Edge Modification: Bifacial thinning with secondary edge retouching Manufacturing Notes: Somewhat wavy x-section. Medial lateral edge has a more recent bevel maybe from excav. Shape is fusi-elliptical, with a distinct shoulder although the shoulder is not the widest point of the blade. Shoulder occurs 3.96 cm from the end having a wider angle (80°). Other end has angle of 70°. Use Trace: See lateral edge damage under manufacturing. There is polish on either end and on dorsal ridges. Hard to say which end is distal & which proximal. Generally more polish on the shorter, more obtuse end. This could be from hafting, if this end was hafted, or from use, such as digging. Polish extends well up toward mid-blade on some ridges. Comments: Fusi-elliptical or Ramey knife? Raw material is a dark quartzite having sparse darker gray to black mottles and streaks surrounded by halos of a rusty hue.
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: 228126
label: USNM Number
content: A423171-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Biface
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 17.56 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 6.25 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 1.87 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 217 g