Conch Shell Dipper, Engraved
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: Braden C Raw Material 2: Busycon sinistrum Element: Complete except for distal tip. Alteration: Weathered Manufacturing Notes: Fairly crude, almost appears unfinished. Design: Design incorporates both apex and body. Surface Modification: Incised Symbols: Crossed snakes, tasseled mace, broken arrow. Raccoon binding on mace. Residue: Red and brownish stains on inner surface, thin. Use Trace: Residue. Comments: Shell has spit longitudinally. Face hangs from mace and has eye outside on forehead. Raccoon binding on other mace has 2 hind legs and tail. Snakes are cross hatched and intertwined. Feathers hang from maces and head.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Sep 2022
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: A448809-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dipper
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 24.8 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 17.4 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 10.9 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 752.4 g