Engraved Conch 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: Craig A Raw Material 2: Busycon sinistrum Element: Apical right fragment, left shoulder fragment Manufacturing Notes: Well executed w/ dots made using a drill start. 2nd piece in poorer condition, but workmanship appears a bit sloppier. Design: Drilled in top of spire. Bird man theme & ? Surface Modification: Incised Symbols: Concentric triangles, dotted circles, chevrons and concentric arc. Impossible to decipher design. Also: wing parts, sidelock, bird nose, flying beaded feather, perf pulley earspool Residue: Ocher in apical break which is old. Ocher on surface of shoulder fragment. Use Trace: Well scoured inner. Comments: Phillips & Brown Pl 170D (Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma) - they refer to it as inscrutable. Same Plate, letter A shows the shoulder frag. These are from 2 different vessels.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Mar 2020
label: Site Number
content: 34LF40
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
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: A448880-7
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dipper
physicalDescription: label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 243.9 g
label: Minimum Length - Object
content: ca. 7.29 cm
label: Maximum Length - Object
content: ca. 9.65 cm
label: Minimum Width - Object
content: ca. 10.6 cm
label: Maximum Width - Object
content: ca. 12.63 cm
label: Bore Diameter
content: ca. 0.35 cm