Copper Plate
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: 2335 Element: Plate w/pendants, basketry Shape/Form: Plate Manufacturing Notes: Cu has been hammered, and folded at least 4 times (at least 5 layers). Surface Modification: Hammered Symbols: Bird Residue: Several objects smashed toegether, includes Cu & its corrsion products, Basketry. Wood sliver is up against the center shell. Use Trace: Copper folded 3 or 4 times. Has been X-rayed by the SI, but the photos dont reveal much. Comments: This is the parent entry, see also forms for basketry, beads, textiles. Bird head clearly visible on one face. It is covered with a layer of basketry. Bird is seen from the side, and head is all but taken up by the large concentric ring eye. The beak is cm long. Another piece of the same copper layer extends out parallel to the beak. Shell beads are laid out parallel along the long axis of the plate. Apex of columella pendant is positioned near bird head (on opposite face). See also 423227s01.2 -.4 Part 1.1 of 1.4
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Oct 2015
label: Site Number
content: 34LF40
label: Specimen Count
content: 6
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: A423227-1
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Copper
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 10.9 cm
label: Length - Object
content: ca. 12 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 9.25 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 1.8 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 161.1 g