Engraved Conch Shell Dipper Frag.
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 A Raw Material 2: Busycon sinistrum Element: Lower body fragment Manufacturing Notes: No over cutting, clean lines. Surface Modification: Incised Symbols: Human head, hair bun w/unusual terminal Residue: Brown on inner Use Trace: Well scoured Comments: See Phillips & Brown Pl 11(Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma) for similar heads. This one is facing up toward the apex. Long bun w/divided circular terminal to bun. Terminal resembles atlatl finer holes.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Apr 2020
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: A448880-2
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dipper
physicalDescription: label: Maximum Length - Object
content: ca. 11 cm
label: Maximum Width - Object
content: ca. 8.67 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 124.7 g