Bone Awl Fragments
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: Tapering Element: Fragments - 7 distal Shape/Form: Tapering Manufacturing Notes: Striae on surfaces. Design: Round to elliptical x-section. Surface Modification: Smoothed Residue: Cu stain on 3 Refits: Refitted into 9 discrete pieces. Comments: Dimensions are max. dimension of refitted tool. Most frags average about 6 cm long. Tips of 3 are rounded, as though they'd broken and become worn afterwards. Other tips are sharp. April K. Sievert refitted 2 more frags and adhered w/ polyvinyl acetate. Part 1 of 2
label: Notes
content: Style: Troughed Element: Fragments - 3 distal, 3 medial Shape/Form: Tapering Manufacturing Notes: Made from wider and longer bone segments, these are deeply troughed. Although the grooves may be a function of the natural marrow cavity, the longest frag has an incised groove on the outer surface as well as the inner. Design: Grooved Surface Modification: Smoothed, incised Residue: Sediment stain, but no Cu stain Refits: 2 of the 6 are refitted and glued Comments: Represent no more than five tools. Part 2 of 2
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Oct 2015
label: Site Number
content: 34LF40
label: Specimen Count
content: 14
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: A448708-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Awl
physicalDescription: label: Length - Tapering
content: ca. 13.43 cm
label: Width - Tapering
content: ca. 0.65 cm
label: Thickness - Tapering
content: ca. 0.6 cm
label: Weight - Tapering
content: ca. 28.3 g
label: Length - Troughed
content: ca. 17.5 cm
label: Width - Troughed
content: ca. 2.13 cm
label: Thickness - Troughed
content: ca. 0.89 cm
label: Weight - Troughed
content: ca. 46.4 g