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: Craig C Raw Material 2: Busycon sinistrum Element: Apical and body complete, distal missing. Alteration: Weathered Manufacturing Notes: Wide bold incising. Design: Two men facing pole (busk). Surface Modification: Incised Symbols: Forked pole, belts w/bird heads, beaded forelock, speech scroll, facial tattoo, perforated pulley earspool. Residue: Interesting basketry impression on apex and right side. The impression is faint as far as residue, but it has elicited a breakdown of the shell surface such that narrow grooves outline the individual strips from the original woven mesh, leaving a herringbone pattern of cuts in the surface. Use Trace: Obliterated by deterioration. Comments: Problematic element between pole and men's arms. It extends out from pole on either side. On right side it connects man to pole and looks and has a wide base at pole and tapers to man's chest. On the other side it has a bifurcate origin at the pole, and is rounded off at the narrow end just adjacent to the left man's chest. Hands are detailed. See also A423267 for similar motif.
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: A448794-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dipper
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 28.7 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 19.3 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 12.8 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 1095.6 g