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 C Raw Material 2: Busycon sinistrum Element: Apical and body fragment, distal missing. Manufacturing Notes: Bold well executed incising. Apical hole 1 cm in from open rim. Design: Apex treated as separate design element. Surface Modification: Incised Symbols: Hands, rectangles, concentric rayed circle, crown mace, bird parts, crossed circles, other odd design (see Phillips & Brown, Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma, 1983, pl 122) Comments: Joan Gardner (conservator) notes 2 hands w/ 6 fingers but looks to me as though 2 hands attach to very skinny wrists, because these extra appendages are at right angles to the rest (thumbs could be too) and have a grid at their base like for a bracelet - true they are at odd angles to the hand. One hand has rectangle in center.
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: A448792-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dipper
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 24.3 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 17.6 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 11.8 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 623.1 g
label: Bore Diameter
content: ca. 0.43 cm