Engraved Shell Gorget Frag.
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: Type 3 - Craig Element: Most of piece Alteration: Chemical Manufacturing Notes: Sketchy incising. Surface Modification: Incised Symbols: Bird head, bird tail Residue: Heavy Cu on back w/basket impression on it. Front (inner) has Cu stain. Use Trace: Break determined on basis of roughness along one edge and lack of symmetry. Symmetry of course cannot really be assumed. Comments: Bird head like some on Craig C [see Phillips & Brown (Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma) Pl 338D]. They orient it w/beak pointing up - I tend to thinkof it going the other way, with the bird facing down, like on the bird head belts. Chevron pattern on the tail part.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Nov 2021
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: A448762-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Gorget
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 7.84 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 5.81 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: 0.48 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 30.6 g