Spatulate Celt
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: Spatulate Luster: LS1 Element: Complete Shape/Form: Spatulate Working Shape: Convex Edge Modification: Ground flat Manufacturing Notes: Finely beveled working edge. Rectangular X-section. Sides are remarkably parallel. Surface Modification: Polished smooth Residue: Sediment, possible shell Use Trace: Very little damage to WE, just two damage scars, one polished over, the other not. Striations cut thru sediment on surface suggesting that these are recent. Comments: Dr. James A. Brown (1976) only saw pieces, no complete examples. No greenstone ones reported by Dr. James A. Brown.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jun 2016
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: A448673-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Celt/Chisel
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 24.9 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 15.7 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 1.83 cm
label: Proximal Stem Width
content: ca. 12.76 cm
label: Distal Stem Width
content: ca. 13.49 cm
label: Stem Length
content: ca. 17.7 cm