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: Craig Raw Material 2: Busycon sinistrum Element: Body and some distal fragment, body fragment Alteration: Weathered Manufacturing Notes: Minor over cutting. Design: Upside down. Surface Modification: Incised Symbols: Bird w/ outstretched wings, barred oval, bulbous body, forked eye, rayed headdress, bead choker. Residue: Brown spotty inner. Bright yellow brown on inner of more badly weathered matching fragment A448880. Use Trace: Well scoured inner. Comments: 1 frag A448836 parent + 1 frag A448880 wings. Also another frag A448880 w/similar bird head, wh/Phillips and Brown 1983, pl 206 (Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma. Vols VI-VI) discuss in the same context. Apparently this had been w/ A448836 but Joan Gardner, conservator, moved it in 1978. Keep an eye out for it & include w/this data card. Frag of A448880 located and placed with A448836. Phillips & Brown 1983 Pl. 207Ba,b.
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: A448836-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dipper
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 18.7 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 16.5 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 597 g