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: Craig B Raw Material 2: Busycon sinistrum Element: Body fragment, distal fragment. Alteration: Weathered Manufacturing Notes: Traces obliterated. Design: 2 large figures standing upright on right & left. Surface Modification: Incised Symbols: Bow, arrow, bi-lobed arrow. Residue: Chalking. Use Trace: Traces obliterated. Comments: Sash, w/tassels, bead choker at neck of one individual. Figure on right holds bow and arrow w/arrow head pointed down. Arrow point is clearly barbed. Grids at knees, one leg flexed slightly. He has beaded forelock and facial tattoo or paint. Bi-lobed arrow points out from back of his headdress. His body is obliterated. Figure on left has torso intact but that is all. Would have been a huge shell.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Oct 2015
label: Site Number
content: 34LF40
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
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: A448814-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dipper
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 32.5 cm
label: Minimum Length - Object
content: ca. 24 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 21 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 9.8 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 655.9 g