Beaver Bones, Tied Together with Cordage
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: Unclassified Shape/Form: Irregular Manufacturing Notes: Loosely tied with cordage which has been wrapped thrice around the bones. Comments: Consists of 4 beaver bones, including inominate, femur, tibia and fibula. These are tied together with cordage. A ritual bundle of some sort I should imagine. Interesting in that this is said to be beaver, because beavers do not show up in other iconography. If it was raccoon, that would make more sense, given the raccoon wrapping shown in the shell iconography. Part 1.1 of 1.2
label: Notes
content: Style: 2 ply Z twist Manufacturing Notes: Thick yarn of a stiff vegetal fiber. Wrapped and tied around animal leg bones. Residue: Something coats this cordage, otherwise it would not be so stiff, glossy and well preserved. Perhaps an old preservative has been used. Comments: In very good condition. This is the only piece of its kind, where something is actually bundled with cordage.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Feb 2017
label: Site Number
content: 34LF40
label: Specimen Count
content: 5
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: A448939-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Faunal bone
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object 1
content: ca. 13 cm
label: Width - Object 1
content: ca. 5 cm
label: Thickness - Object 1
content: ca. 4.5 cm
label: Weight - Object 1
content: ca. 54 g