Conch Shell Dipper, Engraved
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: Complete w/ large hole in body. Alteration: Weathered Manufacturing Notes: Joan Gardner, conservator, 2'75 noted possible hole in distal tip. Incising of snake on apex left a weakening in vessel wall, and shell shows signs of separating along this. Design: Single large motif on body, another similar motif on apex, hole on body not apex. Surface Modification: Incised Symbols: Snake, bird talons concentric circles, grids, chevrons. Residue: Very little. Use Trace: Numerous long striations on the inner surface - from cleaning? Large body hole w/jagged edges. This does look intentional. Another in apex (small) and a smaller hole still in the midportion of the distal end. Comments: Long serpent pattern 2w/2 snakes, one on body, one on apex. Body snake has head left and tail right. Snake is flanked by 2 bands decorated w/running motif of 4 || lines followed by 2 dotted circles. These extend on both sides of snake head and truncate even w/snake snout. For the snake which coils about the apex, these bands are truncated by the vessel rim. Snake has banded eyes. 4 motifs of talons 1 distal to snake w/ 3 claws emanating from double (vertical) rectangle w/bead grid. Another motif is placed symmetrically on the apical side of the snake pointing distal. On either side of this is another pointing apically from snakes's body.
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: A448813-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dipper
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 33.4 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 17 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 13.5 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 691.2 g
label: Bore Diameter
content: ca. 0.67 cm