Engraved Conch Shell Dipper - Snake Dancer
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1958
name: label: Donor Name
content: Harry M. Trowbridge
label: Site Name
content: Craig Mound
notes: label: Notes
content: Original Catalog Number: 2640 Style: Craig C Raw Material 2: Busycon sinistrum Element: Complete, large hole in center Manufacturing Notes: 2 worked distal holes along edge 4 cm apart. Drilled outside in. Surface Modification: Incised Symbols: Man holding serpent staff, pear shaped forms. Back apron w/concentric rectangular design in center. Residue: Spot brown residue on outer distal. Use Trace: Inner is stained and somewhat patinated looking. Comments: Sash w/bird head on left side of belt, Tri-forked thing coming out from back of head. Man faces right. 2 serpent staffs, right one decorated with rectangles, left w. chevrons. Beaded forelock. Single horn headdress. Man wears something on chest but there is hole here. Fan shaped termination for rt. snake staff sim to those pictured in Phillips & Brown pgs 292, 306. This fan has 2 pear things descending from it on ether side. NOT IN PHILLIPS AND BROWN 1983 (Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma. Vols VI-VI) Craig C assignment easy - this is classic. Facial configuration similar to face of man in Phillips & Brown pg. 300 who also has the 3 feathers at the back of the head.
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: A423238-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dipper
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 34.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 17.5 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 12 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 1092.1 g