Elongate Shell Beads
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: Asymmetrical Convex (Bowed) Cylindrical Element: Complete + fragments Manufacturing Notes: Many are curved Use Trace: Some show the characteristic damage at tips from rubbing against a cordage while strung. Comments: Prefer not to call these thick elongate after Brown 1976 (Brown, James A. The Artifacts. Second Part of the Third Annual Report of Caddoan Archaeology) because of their overall similarity to convexo-cylindrical-columella beads. Part 1 of 4
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Oct 2015
label: Site Number
content: 34LF40
label: Specimen Count
content: 85
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: A448723-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bead
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 4.1 cm
label: Minimum Length - Object
content: ca. 2.39 cm
label: Maximum Length - Object
content: ca. 5.68 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 1.15 cm
label: Minimum Width - Object
content: ca. 0.94 cm
label: Maximum Width - Object
content: ca. 1.51 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 496.5 g