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 B Raw Material 2: Busycon sinistrum Element: Lower body fragment Alteration: Chemical Manufacturing Notes: Extremely nice workmanship. Drill started dots used frequently to highlight tail feathers & to border the fish-tail pattern. Concentric. Surface Modification: Incised Symbols: Bird, odd fish-like thing, dotted circle, zig-zag line, biconcave things that resemble biconcave shell beads. Residue: Matte light brown on outer, also yellowish brown both surfaces. Use Trace: Deeply scoured inner Comments: This is really beautiful. Bird has webbed foot. Phillips & Brown Pl. 94 (Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma). Perfect rendering of small curved forms, How they did it I don't know.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Apr 2020
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: A448880-28
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dipper
physicalDescription: label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 96.2 g
label: Maximum Width - Object
content: ca. 9.85 cm
label: Maximum Length - Object
content: ca. 10.75 cm