Wooden Earspool
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: Cone Element: Complete Condition: Stable Manufacturing Notes: Hollowed cone with outer lip. Lip contains 4 sm. holes for attachment to ear. Small hole in ape goes all the way thru to the back. There are 2 eye spots where something may have been glued. The thing altogether forms a face - is it bird or animal? Design: Eyes and snout Surface Modification: Carved Residue: Cu staining Use Trace: Crushed and warped Part record 1 of 5
label: Notes
content: Style: Cone Element: Complete Alteration: Deformed Manufacturing Notes: Outer lip w/ 4 holes for attachment, hollowed, long tapering apex. 2 eye spots on either side of face and anotherhollowed spot nearer apex. Design: Eyes Surface Modification: Carved Residue: Cu staining Comments: Diameter - took the diameter at the wide point, so the diameter is really a max. est. diameter of the original cone. Part record 2 of 5
label: Notes
content: Style: Cone Element: Complete Alteration: Deformed Manufacturing Notes: Lipped w/4 holes in lip for attachment. Central narrow bore thru apex. 2 long shallow depressions on either side for eyes. Design: Eyes Surface Modification: Carved Residue: Cu staining, especially in one 'eye' hole Part record 3 of 5
label: Notes
content: Style: Cone Element: Complete Alteration: Deformed Manufacturing Notes: Only 2 holes visible in outer lip. 2 eye spots midway along axis. central narrow bore (.46cm diam) from snout thru cone. Hollowed out. Design: Eyes Surface Modification: Carved Residue: Cu staining, especially in one 'eye' hole Use Trace: Flattened Part record 4 of 5
label: Notes
content: Style: Cone Element: Complete Alteration: Deformed Manufacturing Notes: Lipped w/ 4 sm holes in lip equidistant around perimeter, Central bore, no clear eye spots. Surface Modification: Carved Residue: Cu in cone Use Trace: Flattened Comments: These five effigy ear cones are very similar in size and morphology. Perhaps from cache or same burial feature. Was central bore for attachment or did it support a design element set in? All except one have well defined eyes. Part record 5 of 5
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Oct 2015
label: Site Number
content: 34LF40
label: Specimen Count
content: 5
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: A448899-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Earspool
physicalDescription: label: Width - Object 1
content: ca. 6.43 cm
label: Thickness - Object 1
content: ca. 7.2 cm
label: Weight - Object 1
content: ca. 28.8 g
label: Width - Object 2
content: ca. 5.77 cm
label: Thickness - Object 2
content: ca. 6.97 cm
label: Weight - Object 2
content: ca. 32.8 g
label: Width - Object 3
content: ca. 5.5 cm
label: Thickness - Object 3
content: ca. 7.1 cm
label: Weight - Object 3
content: ca. 33.3 g
label: Width - Object 4
content: ca. 6.3 cm
label: Thickness - Object 4
content: ca. 7.4 cm
label: Weight - Object 4
content: ca. 25.2 g
label: Width - Object 5
content: ca. 6.15 cm
label: Thickness - Object 5
content: ca. 7.27 cm
label: Weight - Object 5
content: ca. 28.9 g