Chert Blade Fragment
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1958
name: label: Donor Name
content: Harry M. Trowbridge
label: Site Name
content: Craig Mound
notes: label: Notes
content: Orginial Catalog Number: 2776 Style: Sword form - general Raw Material 2: Unknown Raw Material Source: Unknown Luster: LS1 Broken: Yes Shape/Form: Excurved Edge Modification: Bifacial thinning with bifacial secondary retouching only on one face. Alteration: Heat Manufacturing Notes: Asymmetrical longitudinally. Straighter edge is beveled. Use Trace: Polish on unretouched face opposite bevel. Scraping action seems likely. Would have to clean tool to tell for sure. Comments: Raw material has distinctive clear black dots sparsely distributed on the field. SCRAPING tool function from beveling morphology, shape, wear. Pink at tip. Part record 3 of 8
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: 228126
label: USNM Number
content: A423174-2
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Biface
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 8.11 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 5.82 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 0.92 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 50.1 g