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 C Raw Material 2: Busycon sinistrum Element: Apical body fragment, distal body fragment, shoulder fragment Alteration: Weathered, mechanical Manufacturing Notes: Very messy execution w/ stray lines everywhere. Design: Connected motif. Surface Modification: Incised Symbols: Cross in circle w/ connecting grid Residue: Brown on smallest fragment. Use Trace: Tip of A448826 is bent upward, but this is not the distal tip of the vessel. Comments: Crosses in 3 of 10 concentric circle designs, some w/3 circles, some w/2. Some have dot in center, some blank. Motifs joined w/4 column bands having filled triangles running along them (like rose thorns). 3 pieces match but do not refit. Parent is apical body frag. Distal frag is A448877. Shoulder frag is A448880 and it matches the right apical side of A448877. Joan Gardner, conservator, describes as abstract geometric w/ sets of 3 circles inscribed w/ connectors (5 per set). On 4 sides w/ alternating (or missing) smaller flange of 3 to 5 lines. Between the lines are triangles or simple brick pattern. Phillips & Brown 1983 Pl. 122.3A,B; B-2I (Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma. Vols VI-VI).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Oct 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
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 272249
label: USNM Number
content: A448828-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dipper
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 21 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 12 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 7.7 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 190.1 g