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 C Raw Material 2: Busycon sinistrum Element: Body and shoulder fragment, left distal fragment Alteration: Weathered Manufacturing Notes: Wide deep lines Surface Modification: Incised Symbols: At least 3 lg heads, beaded forelock, perforated pulley earspool, ponytail, hair crest, speech scroll?, circumocular mark, mouth tattoos. Residue: Outer w/thick flaky yellow brown residue on much of piece. appears organic. Probably basket impression although its difficult to discern individual wefts. On A448861 fragment a crusty limelike residue. Use Trace: Scoured inner. Comments: Parent A448834 w/2 refit frags on A448880 adhered. Another frag consisting of 2 frags of A448861 belong to same vessel and were recorded (Joan Gardner, conservator) as having been put into this box, instead they were located by aks 5/92 in drawer x241100301. They are now in the same box (5/92) w/ A448834 (April K. Siever). Phillips & Brown 1983 Pl. 29A, B, E, F (Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma. Vols VI-VI).
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
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 272249
label: USNM Number
content: A448834-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dipper
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 30 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 15.6 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 7.5 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 564.2 g