Chert Blade Fragment
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1958
name: label: Donor Name
content: Harry M. Trowbridge
label: Site Name
content: Craig Mound
notes: label: Notes
content: Orginial Catalog Number: 2914-08, 2914-9, 2914-10 Style: Sword form - general Raw Material 2: Mississippian Reed Spring Raw Material Source: Southern Ozarks Luster: Dull Broken: Yes Shape/Form: Excurved Base: Convex Edge Modification: Fine bifacial thinning and secondary bifacial edge retouching Manufacturing Notes: Blade ends; rounded proximal, point distal. Refits: A423191-1 Residue: One face liberally sprinkled with a brown residue in patches. Only on one face. Use Trace: Only the break between the 423191 fragment and the 423174 fragments is old, and appears to be pre-depositional becuase the brown residue adheres to it. Other breaks are recent, including 2 that happened after Smithsonian cataloging ( number is broken off one earlier break, and blade is snapped such that one end is left without a catalog number). 2 fragments from earliest break are missing perhaps not recovered from the mound. Pointt of impact on the early break. Both ends show smoothing on ridges. Comments: Raw material is white chert having a homogenous texture and sparse darker elliptical spots with very light halos. Rounded end is darker tan in color and shows some banding. Pre-depostional breakage is clear from on ly one break, but does indicate that the piece was broken before burial. This is likely to have been intentionally broken. Part record 1 of 8
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Oct 2015
label: Site Number
content: 34LF40
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
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: A423174-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Biface
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 25.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 6 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 0.94 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 147.1 g