Lump Of Red Pigment
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: Worked Raw Material 2: Red Luster: Dull Shape/Form: Pyramid Manufacturing Notes: Shaped into a rounded pyramidal form. Plano-convex w/ flat rough base. View from top is elliptical. L=longest dim. Thick = heat. There is a hole c. 1 cm deep drilled or gouged out of the top slightly off center on side opposite grooves. One face very smooth but gently troughed with 4 parallel grooves wh/ are v. shallow and finger-width. Residue: Fragments of shell. Use Trace: Not obvious. Comments: Looks like this was something other than raw material. Function as an object is anybody's guess. Perhaps was powdered and shaped while wet. I favor finger impressions, and so did Joan Gardner (conservator) in '74.
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: 272249
label: USNM Number
content: A448924-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pigment
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 8.44 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 7.04 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 7.54 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 344.4 g