Shell "Mask" Gorget
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: Mask Element: Complete Alteration: Mechanical Manufacturing Notes: Made from cut away apex. Open mouth formed by taking out the very tip of the apex. 2 eyes are drilled in and surround by an incised circle. A long raised nose extends down between the eyes. The surface is very well polished. Mouth has 5 incised lines extending down from lower edge. Design: Uses natural shell shape Surface Modification: Incised, polished Symbols: Human face (mask) Use Trace: Part of proper left side is missing. Proper right side intact showing that side of face is modeled w/2 indents on ea. side (chin and jowl?). Comments: Zig-zag of 3 || lines extend out and down from ea. eye. Odd random lines also seem to emanate from lower eye. Below mouth on left is a recently incised scribble (this is the mechanical damage referred to above).
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 20, p. 160 in Townsend, Richard F., Robert V. Sharp, and Garrick Alan Bailey. 2004. Hero, hawk, and open hand: American Indian art of the ancient Midwest and South. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago. Identified there as engraved shell mask, 13th/14th century.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Nov 2021
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: A448743-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Gorget
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 11.36 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 9.08 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 99.9 g
label: Bore Diameter
content: ca. 0.45 cm