Engraved Shell Dipper Frag.
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 A Raw Material 2: Busycon sinistrum Element: Apical & shoulder fragment Manufacturing Notes: Stunning workmanship. No over cutting or irregular curves. Fine deep incisions of consistent width. Design: Design carried onto body whorl. Surface Modification: Incised, excised Symbols: Snake Residue: Suspicious brown splotch on shoulder & stain remnants inner. Use Trace: Scoured inner. Comments: Definition between snake back and underbelly is excised as is area adjacent to snake eye, which is carved onto the portion oft he columella usually removed. Instead the columella is cut down in a graceful curve. This could be the example of fine workmanship against which other executions can be compared. Small fragment is A448866.
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: A448838-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dipper
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 14.8 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 12.12 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 218.4 g