Notched, Rounded Base Chert 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: 2695 Style: Ovoid Irregular Luster: Waxy Shape/Form: Excurved Base: Convex Edge Modification: Bifacial thinning with fine bifacial secondary retouching. Alteration: Heat Manufacturing Notes: Shallow side notches set high up on blade. Notches are actually in the lateral edges tipward from a distinct shoulder which forms the widest area of the piece. Width measure is of blade above notch. Stem width is max tool width. This is a perfect, carefully made, odd form of large biface. Use Trace: Notched edge damage on one edge near tip. Comment: Raw material has healed fractures which appear darker red. Large fossil or crystal inclusion near base. This is odd because the notches are high above the shoulder, and the raw material appears to be heat altered novaculite.
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: A423179-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Knife
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 12.19 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 3.81 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 0.9 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 47.8 g
label: Proximal Stem Width
content: ca. 4.23 cm
label: Distal Stem Width
content: ca. 3.42 cm
label: Stem Length
content: ca. 4.12 cm