Engraved Conch 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 B Raw Material 2: Busycon sinistrum Element: Body fragment Manufacturing Notes: Relatively deep bold design. Design: Single hawk dancer. Surface Modification: Incised Symbols: Columella pendant, barred ovals; facial tattoos, per pulley earspool, crosses w/ drilled centers on waistband, fringed apron, spherical shell beads. Residue: Orange organic on inner and outer. Use Trace: Residue Comments: Beads and columella worn on a singly necklace, which shows string. Outstretched wings (no hands). Leg flexed. Brickwork beads at neck and below knees. Gorget or such below beaded choker, but above columella necklace. Barred ovals on arms, thighs, wingtips, half-barred ovals on chest.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 Mar 2020
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: A448826-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dipper
physicalDescription: label: Minimum Length - Object
content: ca. 17.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 19.5 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 6.9 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 367 g