Large, Worked Whelk (?) Shelll
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: Unengraved Raw Material 2: Pleuroploca gigantea kiener Element: Apex w/ fracture at lowest whorl Manufacturing Notes: Holes approx 2 cm down from cut and ground rim of vessel. 2 are 5 cm apart & the third is directly opposite these. All are drilled from the outside in. Columella and distal portion of shell cut away so the vessel is formed of the apical portion only. The cut rim has been ground and exhibits tool marks (striation). Design: 3 drilled holes around lip Surface Modification: Smoothed Residue: 2 separate patches of thin brown residue on inner surface. Use Trace: Residue suggests use. Hole (1.85cm diam) eaten through 1st apical whorl. Joan Gardner, conservator, refers to this as killed area. Comments: Interesting that the residue on the inside is in 2 distinct patches. One area is also the area with the hole throught he apical whorl. This residue could be from fluid that simply collected there during the time the piece reseted in the mound. The other patch might be from fluid resting in it while rotated 1/4 turn to right. Pleuroploca is not plentiful at the site, and this is quite a good sized specimen. Note extended apical portion of Pleuroploca gigantea.
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: A448884-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shell Modified
physicalDescription: label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 499.7 g
label: Length - Object
content: ca. 19.8 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 13.05 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 12.7 cm
label: Bore Diameter
content: ca. 0.4 cm