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: Braden A Raw Material 2: Busycon sinistrum Element: Lower body fragment Manufacturing Notes: excised bordered triangles. Workmanship fine and intricate Design: Design w/in design Surface Modification: Incised, excised Symbols: Triangles, Davis rectangle, serpentine form, squatting person in a square Residue: Yellow and orange stains Use Trace: Some scouring inner Comments: A very unusual design . Phillips and Brown 1978 Pl. 18 (Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma. Vols I-III). There are elements of a large figure in an animated posture, w/a square having a very small figure adjacent to it. Might be depiction of square embossed cu plate, or who knows. See Phillips & Brown for their discussion. 2 refitted fragments.
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: A448876-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dipper
physicalDescription: label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 100.9 g
label: Length - Object
content: ca. 14.33 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 7.45 cm