Wooden Figurine 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: Effigy Element: Body this #, head 448896, Complete w/both pieces Shape/Form: Seated human Alteration: Heat Manufacturing Notes: Very vague tool marks. Buttocks defined by groove. Head is narrow and somewhat flattened longit. Left side of face clearly defined, esp ear & 1 eye and nose. Eye spot is deep and could have held an inset. Other eye is flattened toward side of face. Right side is w/o feature except for part of eye, right side looks burned. Design: On one knee w/other leg flexed in front & foot flat on basal plane. Surface Modification: Carved Symbols: Occupital hair knot. Residue: Charring. Use Trace: Head is partially burned suggesting that this was burned in a ritual context. Certainly wasn't anybody's firewood. Refit: 448896 Comments: Very similar to large tenoned wooden figure. They could have been made by the same maker. Head is a separate # but is treated as a part of this piece. L = heat and includes head. Wt incl head as well. No doubt that these refit.
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: A448890-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 11.44 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 9.97 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 28.6 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 416.4 g