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: Complete in length but w/ big hole. Alteration: Weathered Manufacturing Notes: Drilled hole in left side of columella stump and in distal tip. Surface Modification: Incised Symbols: Raccoons, barred oval, bracelets, horns on raccoons. Residue: Red inner appears to be ink. Use Trace: Huge hole broken out of the left side. Comments: Its those adorable slightly anomalous raccoons in swim goggles. Antlers (3 point) showing. Did not take wt because this will not rest stably on the scale. Raccoons have round noses, banded eyes, 3 fingers and toes on ea. paw. Brickwork grid at waist. Ears have little hatches and so they appear furred. 5 raccoons all lines up along longit axis. Long and narrow shell.
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: A448808-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dipper
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 34.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 15 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 12 cm
label: Bore Diameter
content: ca. 0.51 cm