Sheet Of Copper
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: Embossed Element: Plate or plume Shape/Form: Falcon Alteration: Chemical Design: Concentric semi-circles Surface Modification: Hammered Symbols: Falcon Residue: Cu, 2 shell beads adhere to Cu. Spots where other beads adhered are visible. These may be soem one the other loose beads in the group. Use Trace: Cu folded a minimum of twice. Comments: Visible design consists of 5 concentric semi-circles flanked by a vertical line form. Count represents Cu + 2 beads. Basketry on reverse is a wide loose weave simple w/fiber width at 0.4. and 1.6 cm between strands. Part 1.1 of 13
label: Notes
content: Style: Convexo-Cylindrical Columella Raw Material 2: Busycon Surface Modification: Polished Residue: Cu Comments: Cannot measure thickness because beads adhere to Cu plate. Wt is combined w/parent copper mass. Part 1.2 of 13
label: Notes
content: Raw Material 2: Busycon Element: Distal end Shape/Form: Random Alteration: Weathered Residue: Cu frags and Textile bunch. Comments: Cu plate fragments adhere to ea side. On outer face the Cu (4x2.5 cm) is folded in an accordian pleat. On inner face the Cu patch (3x4 cm) holds a deposit of red fiber in place. Fibers are very fine and shiny. Impossible to make out weave if it even is woven. Looks more like a bunch of fur. Part 2 of 13
label: Notes
content: Style: Convexo-Cylindrical Columella Raw Material 2: Busycon Surface Modification: Polished Residue: Cu. stain. Clearly had rested on cu plate. Use Trace: Was strung on string Refits: 448896 Comments: Part of composite artifact cluster so weight includes bead + cordage. Part 3.1 of 13
label: Notes
content: Style: 2 ply S Twist Use Trace: Used for stringing shell beads Comments: Each play has at least 5 fibers. Part 3.2 of 13
label: Notes
content: Style: Convexo-Cylindrical Columella Raw Material 2: Busycon Surface Modification: Polished Residue: Cu plate. Bead adheres to plate. Comments: Cu plate is 4.65 x 2.25 cm, folded once for min thickness of 2 layers. There is embossed design but no clue to what its from. Part 4 of 13
label: Notes
content: Style: Spherical Columella Raw Material 2: Busycon Alteration: Weathered Surface Modification: Polished Residue: Cu plate Comments: Cu plate 3.6 x 2.78 cm 1 and in one place 2 thicknesses of Cu. Design not legible. I dropped this bead during analysis and it fractured into 2 fragments along the natural layering of the columella. Part 5 of 13
label: Notes
content: Style: Convexo-Cylindrical Raw Material 2: Unclassified Alteration: Weathered Surface Modification: Polished Residue: Cu plate w/few bits of wood or wicker adhering. Comments: Adheres to Cu plate one thickness. 2.35 x 1.4 cm. Part 6 of 13
label: Notes
content: Style: Convexo-Cylindrical Columella Raw Material 2: Busycon Surface Modification: Polished Residue: Cu plate Comments: Cu plate 2 thicknesses 1.46 x .74 Part 7 of 13
label: Notes
content: Style: Convexo-Cylindrical Surface Modification: Polished Residue: Cu plate Comments: Cu plate.91 x 1.57 cm, 1 layer w/mold of another shell bead. Part 8 of 13
label: Notes
content: Style: Convexo-Cylindrical Surface Modification: Polished Residue: Cu plate 2 layers, bit of basketry. Comments: Measurements are means, little var. in beads. Cu plate = 3 x 2.7. Part 9 of 13
label: Notes
content: Style: Convexo-Cylindrical Surface Modification: Polished Residue: Cu plate. Comments: Cu = 1 layer .92 x .65 cm Part 10 of 13
label: Notes
content: Style: Convexo-Cylindrical Columella Raw Material 2: Busycon Surface Modification: Polished Residue: Cu plate. Comments: Cu 1-2 layers. 1.47 x 1.16 cm Cu plate. Part 11 of 13
label: Notes
content: Style: Spherical Columella Raw Material 2: Busycon Design: Groove on side Surface Modification: Polished Residue: Cu plate w/strip of wicker .72 cm wide and quite thick, 1.5 cm long. Comments: Cu plate = 2 x 1.3 cm. Part 12 of 13
label: Notes
content: Element: Fragments Alteration: Chemical Design: Concentric semi-circles Surface Modification: Hammered Hole Shape: Biconical Residue: Incl 1.5 cm of 2 play S-twist cordage. Also a sliver of wicker. Comments: Highly fragmentary. Part 13 of 13
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Oct 2015
label: Site Number
content: 34LF40
label: Specimen Count
content: 15
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: A448737-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Copper
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object 1
content: ca. 10.6 cm
label: Width - Object 1
content: ca. 10 cm
label: Weight - Object 1
content: ca. 77.1 g
label: Length - Object 2
content: ca. 3.2 cm
label: Width - Object 2
content: ca. 1.33 cm
label: Bore Diameter Object 2
content: ca. 0.4 cm
label: Length - Object 3
content: ca. 11.1 cm
label: Width - Object 3
content: ca. 4.55 cm
label: Thickness - Object 3
content: ca. 1 cm
label: Weight - Object 3
content: ca. 61.4 g
label: Length - Object 4
content: ca. 3.15 cm
label: Width - Object 4
content: ca. 1.4 cm
label: Thickness - Object 4
content: ca. 0.92 cm
label: Weight - Object 4
content: ca. 6.5 g
label: Bore Diameter Object 4
content: ca. 0.4 cm
label: Length - Object 5
content: ca. 6.5 cm
label: Width - Object 5
content: ca. 1 cm
label: Length - Object 6
content: ca. 3.24 cm
label: Width - Object 6
content: ca. 1.46 cm
label: Thickness - Object 6
content: ca. 0.8 cm