Conch Shell Dipper, Engraved
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: Braden B Raw Material 2: Busycon sinistrum Element: Complete. Alteration: Weathered Manufacturing Notes: Shallow incising. Design: Interlace pattern. Surface Modification: Incised Symbols: Detached heads, skulls, hair knot, beaded forelock, various eye decor, arrow points. Residue: Basket impression on right half covers 17 x 10 cm. Use Trace: Laid on basket. Comments: Projectile points shown attached to skulls' teeth. They are double barbed like Sallisaw, Ashley chocoville or a coarsely serrated Pocola. Warriors have varying hair styles, mouth designs. Skulls are interlaced, warrior heads are not. Eyes include dotted diamond, dotted diamond in oval, and dotted diamond in scalloped oval. Joan Gardner (conservator) notes no speech scrolls emanating from warrior mouths as suggested by drawing in Hamilton PL 121, B (The Spiro Mound. The Missouri Archaeologist. 1952. 14:1-276).
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: A448811-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dipper
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 26.1 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 14.8 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 10.8 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 729.8 g