Lumps Of Blue Green Clay
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: Worked Element: Lumps Manufacturing Notes: Some appear to have been smoothed or shaped, or perhaps ground. Others are unmodified raw material. 3 largest sandstone ones have what lool like bore or drill holes (.6cm diam & >2 cm. long.) Residue: Some have residue of ocher or bits of shell residue. Use Trace: Very friable. 2 have fine incised lines on them not necessarily from manufacture or use. Comments: Various sizes, shapes and compositions and numbers. Sandy composition: >4cm mx dim. = 2; <4cm = 5 ; degraded limestone matrix >4 cm = 1; clay w/bi-plano x-sect 2 to 4 cm max W = 22; green clay w/ brown surface on one face 2 to 4 cm = 2; clay w/ irreg shape but at least one smoothed curved surface 2 to 4 cm max dim. = 13; clay w/ irreg shape & curved smooth surface >5cm. = 2; Clay Irreg unmod 2 to 4 cm =11. Clay irreg unmod. smaller, overall still 2 to 4 cm =49. un-numbered pieces in separate plastic box incl. clay 2 to 4 cm = 44. Sandy 2 to 4cm. = 1. Clay 2-4 cm. smoothed on on surface = 8. < 1 cm. = 11. Plastic box also contains some organic debris incl a small feather.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Aug 2016
label: Site Number
content: 34LF40
label: Specimen Count
content: 231
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: A448923-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Clay
physicalDescription: label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 755.9 g