Pierced & Engraved Shell Gorget
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: Type 1 - Craig Element: Center portion of 1, edge of other Alteration: Weathered Manufacturing Notes: No fenestration on the smaller. Surface Modification: Incised, perforated Symbols: Humans, greek cross. Residue: Smaller fragment has possible basket residue on inner edge. Thick polyvinyl acetate on smaller. Use Trace: Larger is more weathered Comments: Both are right hand figures for 2 figure gorgets. Phillips and Brown (Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma) show these as similar in Pl. 131, so I kept them grouped here as Joan Gardner (conservator) had left them. Larger frag has border of 6 concentric incised lines.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Nov 2021
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: A448755-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Gorget
physicalDescription: label: Maximum Length - Object
content: ca. 12.1 cm
label: Maximum Width - Object
content: ca. 5.7 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 52.5 g