Polished Pebble
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: Worked Luster: Glassy Broken: Yes Element: Medial fragment Break location: Proximal and distal Manufacturing Notes: Bottom surface is flatter and slightly concave, while top is convex. 2 separate crystal textures in the piece. Loaf-shaped X-section (Plano-convex). Pecking on one basal edge. Surface Modification: Ground Comments: The broken one in the sep. box. Interesting in that it looks like it might have been ground purposefully to this shape, but the shape is a bit odd for it to be a mano. I don't really know what this is. Resembles some hammerstones too, but the ends are so badly fractured. Ends fractured off from the flat face toward the convex. Maybe it is a hammerstone. Or a ritual object such as a charm stone (Fundaburk and Foreman, Sun Circles and Human Hands: The Southeastern Indians Art and Industries. 1957). Part record 1 of 5
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: A448683-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pebble
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 5.53 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 3.75 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 3.41 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 123.6 g