Engraved Conch Shell Dipper Frag.
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: Braden A Raw Material 2: Busycon sinistrum Element: Apical fragments, non-matching Manufacturing Notes: Sketchy shallow incising Surface Modification: Incised Symbols: Arrow fletching, arrowheads Residue: Brown spotty inner Comments: 2 frags, neither of which is in Phillips & Brown. Free floating corner notched points along w/ large fletched arrows w/o points. Feathers extend on both sides of shaft, wh/ has a forked end (nock). On 1 side the distal feather is curved around and comes to a point, on the other side it ends in 5 non-connected parallel lines. See Phillips and Brown 1978:146 (Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma. Vol I-III) under arrow feathering. Design is similar on 2 frags, but they cannot be from the same shell. Smaller frag has the fletching, and part of a design carrying a dotted circle inside a curved line (top of forked eye?).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 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: 272249
label: USNM Number
content: A448871-2
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dipper
physicalDescription: label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 328.2 g
label: Length - Object
content: ca. 10.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 16 cm
label: Minimum Width - Object
content: ca. 11 cm