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 except for big shoulder/ body hole. Alteration: Weathered Manufacturing Notes: Engraving is semi-crude and tool slippage is apparent. Design: Single motifs. Surface Modification: Incised Symbols: Bird man, columella pendant w/ 3 horiz lines. Stylized tail feathers, barred ovals, speech scroll, pear shape, sash. Residue: Thick residue around deteriorated area. Yellow stain on inner corresponding to outer area of residue/alteration. Use Trace: Large hole might have been deliberate. Comments: Bird man w/flipper sort of bird feet for feet and Phillips and Brown note that the lower bird body resembles Craig B bird forms (Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma,1983, Pl 299). Barred ovals laid out in a line on wing coverts. Pear shaped motifs are attached to extensions from the head which could be forked tongues. Phillips and Brown suggest the pear motifs might represent scalps. Chevron for apron.
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: 272249
label: USNM Number
content: A448800-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dipper
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 28.1 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 16.7 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 11.6 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 636.9 cm