Chert Blade Fragment
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1958
name: label: Donor Name
content: Harry M. Trowbridge
label: Site Name
content: Craig Mound
notes: label: Notes
content: Orginial Catalog Number: 2758-B Style: Sword form - Duck River Raw Material 2: Dover Luster: LS1 Broken: Yes Edge Modification: Bifacial thinning with bifacial retouching. Manufacturing Notes: Bi-convex. Pronounced medial ridge, consistent w/ what James A. Brown (The Artifacts. Second Part of the Third Annual Report of Caddoan Archaeology. 1976.) says of Duck River bifaces fragments made of Mill Creek chert. Residue: Glauconite, ocher Use Trace: Lateral edges are polished, even under residue, suggesting that the polishing is pre-excavation. Hinged snap. Part record 7 of 8
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: 228126
label: USNM Number
content: A423174-6
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Biface
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 5.16 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 3.92 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 1.19 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 34.3 g