Clay Straight-Sided Pot
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1958
name: label: Donor Name
content: Harry M. Trowbridge
label: Site Name
content: Craig Mound
notes: label: Notes
content: Original Catalog Number: 2779 Style: Crockett Curvilinear Incised Shape/Form: Bowl - low carinated cylinder Base Style: Flat - truncated Lip Style: Flat - 1 Paste: Medium texture Orientation: Standing Rim X-section: Direct Temper: Grog, grit Alteration: Reconstruction, heat Manufacturing Notes: Shallow incision and deep punctate w/reed tool max 3 mm in diameter. Punctate done while holding bowl mouth up. Circular motifs are not connected, but separated by a bi-concave shape thickly punctated within. Shell apex design w/knobs represented by punctates. Design: 4 concentric sort of spiral motifs Surface Modification: Burnished, incised Symbols: Shell apex designs Color Interior: Black Residue: Black sooty residue on inner surface. Suspicious well blended black residue covering mends as though it was coated by the dealer. Use Trace: Mended and maybe reconstructed some by dealer. Original use probably included burning as shown being tenacious sooty residue on inner surface. Comments: Whole pot very dark. James A. Brown remarked 3/25/92 that this was unusual, and suggests a highly ritual treatment. However, I wonder how much of the black is original. clearly much is, but there seems to have been some other stuff rubbed on near rim and breaks. One fingerprint. I vacillated between Pennington Punctate and Crockett Curvilinear on this one.
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: 228126
label: USNM Number
content: A423147-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pot
physicalDescription: label: Wall Thickness
content: ca. 0.65 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 11.53 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 9.58 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 354.9 g