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 and body fragment Manufacturing Notes: Animal eyes excised. Snakes chin seems raised too. Surface Modification: Incised, excised Symbols: Snake or bird snake, feathers. Residue: Brown spotty outer and yellow brown inner. Use Trace: Residue Comments: Smallest vessel from Spiro. Snake has crested head, diamond in oval eye, open beak-like maw. Conventional rendering of dorsal and ventral aspects of snake skin. 4 refitted and adhered frags all 448849 except 1 that is unnumbered.
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
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: A448849-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dipper
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 9.1 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 8.2 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 5.2 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 60.1 g