Engraved Conch Shell Dipper - Banded Geometri
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: 2631 Style: Craig B Raw Material 2: Busycon sinistrum Element: Apex & body, distal missing Alteration: Weathered Manufacturing Notes: Sketchy execution. Drilled apical hole in center is approx 1 cm in from edge and was drilled w/ a wide narrow at very tip, but wide otherwise because the steepness of slope of side of hole is very shallow. Design: Banded horizontal layout Surface Modification: Incised Symbols: Barred ovals, pear-shaped motifs, Greek crosses. Residue: Patch brown outer, yellow grainy stain inner, do not see ash mentioned in original description. Use Trace: Left side deteriorated. Comments: 5 bands of motifs, all different. Hairy branch-like motif on apex. then band of crosses, below this band of barred ovals, below this band of pear-shaped objects all oriented w/ pt down at to the left. Below that scalloped line w circles at the V's in the scallop. Apical band resembles log w/6 truncated branches. All branches point toward right and toward apex.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Sep 2022
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: 228126
label: USNM Number
content: A423254-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dipper
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 26.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 16.7 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 10.1 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 667.4 g
label: Bore Diameter
content: ca. 0.4 cm