Red Ware
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: Sanders Plain OTR Broken: Yes Element: Rim (entire & part of base) Shape/Form: Bowl - ovaloid Base Style: Flat undefined Lip Style: Round - 1 Paste: Medium Orientation: Standing Rim X-section: Direct Temper: Grog Surface Modification: Slipped Color Core: 10YR4/1 dark gray Color Interior: 10R4/8 red Use Trace: Post excavation -has been rubbed w/stiff brush & some slip removed. Comments: These bowls are typed based on bases being more rounded than flat. Brown 1971 (Pottery Vessels. First Part of the Third Annual Report of Caddoan Archaeology - Spiro Focus Research. Spiro Studies. 3) defines Old Town red based on such bowls, saying that they resemble Sanders Plain except for the bases being rounder. Also, this shape is cited as unusual in Sanders Plain. Glued. Not all 11 sherds from (same?) vessel.
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
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 272249
label: USNM Number
content: A448641-1
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Vessel
physicalDescription: label: Wall Thickness
content: ca. 0.69 cm
label: Length - Object
content: ca. 16.7 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 11.1 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 7.5 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 201.8 g