Conch Shell Apex Bas-Relief Of Circle Of Human Faces
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: 2642, 2643 Style: Craig A Raw Material 2: Busycon sinistrum Element: Distal fragment, apical fragment Alteration: Weathered Manufacturing Notes: Carved out and well polished. Lovely workmanship. No whittle marks. Raised carved beading (vxcyl beads laid end to end) separate registers of heads facing right. Design: Bas-relief Surface Modification: Incised, excised Symbols: Faces, beaded forelock, unperf earspool, forked eye. Hair bun. Residue: Sediment inner apex. Comments: Incl. 423296(spire) and 423297 (dist frag). Spire has shallower relief and the heads are frontal view, rather than profile. Phillips & Brown (Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma) tentatively place them together Pl.159A,H,E, and the Trowbridge nos. are sequential. There are so few low-relief carvings that it would not be unlikely that they match. Spire shows 4 faces. frag 448846 discovered in w/448880s and added to this context 5/92 - April K. Sievert.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Jul 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
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 228126
label: USNM Number
content: A423296-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure
physicalDescription: label: Maximum Length - Object
content: ca. 9.95 cm
label: Maximum Width - Object
content: ca. 11.07 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 320.1 g