Glass-Like "Bubble" Imbedded In Slag Matrix
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: 2914-13 Raw Material 1: Ash-bone-slag-glass. Raw Material 2: Human Raw Material Source: Crematory remains Luster: Glassy Shape/Form: Irregular Manufacturing Notes: Piece of frothy vitrified silica with a large glass glob/bubble in the surface. Glass bubble measures .88x1.02 in diam. Apparently include fragments of bone. Comments: See Rogers 1980 (Spiro Archaeology: 1979 Excavations. Studies in Oklahoma's Past. 6.) for silica froth entry. James A. Brown says crematory remains, clinkers from bone vitrification during burning. See Bodington for description.
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
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 228126
label: USNM Number
content: A423210-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Slag
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 8.48 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 4.57 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 1.65 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 47.7 cm