Small Projectile Point
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1958
name: label: Donor Name
content: Harry M. Trowbridge
label: Site Name
content: Craig Mound
notes: label: Notes
content: Original Catalog Number: 2879-36 Style: Martindale Raw Material 2: Mississipian Reed Spring - 8 Raw Material Source: S. Ozarks Luster: Waxy Shape/Form: Triangular Base: Concave Edge Modification: Bifacial retouching. Manufacturing Notes: Manufacturing problem on lateral edge. Stepped termins create hump. Residue: Dark brown on basal ridges. Comments: Characteristic "fish-tale" base (Bell, Robert. Guide to the Identification of Certain American Indian Projectile Points. Special bulletin of the Oklahoma Anthropological Society, number 2. 1960). Somewhat translucent. Raw material is dotted w/whiter inclusions. Martindale points estim. at 5000-1000 BP, so its an earlier intrusion into the collection.
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: 228126
label: USNM Number
content: A423192-35
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Point
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 3.67 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 1.81 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 0.59 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 3.4 g
label: Proximal Stem Width
content: ca. 2 cm
label: Distal Stem Width
content: ca. 0.89 cm
label: Stem Length
content: ca. 0.33 cm