Worked shell fragments
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: Type 1 - Craig Element: Various fragments Manufacturing Notes: Various Surface Modification: Incised, perforated, smoothed Symbols: Eye in hand, sun circle, sashes, bird features, spider web, cross-hatching Residue: Some have sediment stuffed into cracks in the broken edges. Use Trace: Some clearly broken before depostion. Comments: See history form for pictures in Phillips & Brown (Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma). 2 are part of same hand in eye gorget (Pl. 277). 9 have edge portions. Scalloped edge, straight and crenelated. 1 small fragment is worked on both faces (Pl. 148C,Cv). Not all may be from type 1 (fenestrated) but at least 6 are. Phillips and Brown 1978 Pl.148C; 151E,J,N; 1983 Pl.273F; 277Ca,b
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Aug 2016
label: Site Number
content: 34LF40
label: Specimen Count
content: 18
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: A448765-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Gorget
physicalDescription: label: Minimum Length - Object 1
content: ca. 3 cm
label: Maximum Length - Object 1
content: ca. 8.2 cm
label: Weight - Object 1
content: ca. 118.8 g