Engraved 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: Apical fragment w/short body fragment Manufacturing Notes: Volute centers and interstices are deeply excised, giving it a 3-D appearance. Extremely fine workmanship. Design: Separate border design along rims. Surface Modification: Incised, excised Symbols: Volutes Residue: Not really Comments: Parent consists of numbered A448827, adhered unnumbered apical frag, and unattached matching small frag A448876. Looks much like Spiro engraved pottery. Border design of excised triangles. Double reverse volutes placed w/in a sinuous wide line consisting of 4 || lines excised in the center. This snakes up and down vertically on the shell. Center of volute (where the reversal begins) marked by an excised circle. Phillips & Brown 1978 Pl. 46 (Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma. Vols I-III).
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
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 272249
label: USNM Number
content: A448827-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dipper
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 10 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 16.5 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 11.53 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 210.5 g