Conch Columnella Pendant
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: Columella Raw Material 2: Busycon Element: Complete apical fragments w/ spines Alteration: Weathered Manufacturing Notes: 2 have well preserved areas, and on the shoulders of these there are visible tool marks. Appear to have used a whittling motion to smooth the shoulders. Surface Modification: Smoothed Residue: Brown patchy thick dull on the apical surface of one which also has thick grainy residue inside opex. Most have some degree of grainy gray sediment on inner surfaces. Use Trace: All have distal breaks, in 2 cases the breaks are fresh, in 3 they are weathered. Comments: Ea. given a tag having the sub no. on it. Separated on basis of apex being unperforated. Part 4 of 10
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Oct 2015
label: Site Number
content: 34LF40
label: Specimen Count
content: 5
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: A448781-3
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pendant
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 19.2 cm
label: Minimum Length - Object
content: ca. 15.9 cm
label: Maximum Length - Object
content: ca. 23 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 6.3 cm
label: Minimum Width - Object
content: ca. 5.76 cm
label: Maximum Width - Object
content: ca. 7.26 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 781.2 g