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: Craig C Raw Material 2: Busycon sinistrum Element: Upper body fragment Alteration: Weathered Manufacturing Notes: Bold but not badly over cut and not too sketchy Design: Forked pole theme Surface Modification: Incised Symbols: Bird head on belt, pear-shaped object, pole w/protuberance Residue: Basket impression on most of outer surface. Twilled w/fiber width of .52 cm. Crusty shell residue inner. Thick polyvinyl acetate or something. Use Trace: Laid on basket Comments: Bird head belt w/dotted circle eye. long arms reach pole, pear object between bird head and pole as in Phillips and Brown Pl. 315 (Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma). This one itself is not in Phillips and Brown.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 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
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: A448880-17
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dipper
physicalDescription: label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 328.1 g
label: Length - Object
content: ca. 17 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 14.3 cm