Novaculite Knife
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: 2914-3 Style: Preform Raw Material Source: Ouachita Mountains Luster: Waxy Shape/Form: Ovate Base: Straight Edge Modification: Irregular bifacial retouching Manufacturing Notes: Cortex present on both faces as though this were retouched from a thin slab. Retouch is steep, often abrupt. Edge cross section is wavy. Preform-like. Use Trace: Small curving fracture at tip. Some rounding at tip. Hard to assess use because the piece is not finely made and thinned. Diamond shaped X-section. Comments: Translucent. Lustrous. Could this be heat altered which changes luster and translucence but not color?
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
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 228126
label: USNM Number
content: A423180-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 11.18 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 2.75 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 1.13 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 34.7 g