Frag. Of Worked Wood
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: Stick Element: Fragments Shape/Form: Narrow Alteration: Heat Manufacturing Notes: Cut or shaped ends - 2 frags have notches at the ends. Surface Modification: Smoothed Residue: Cu staining, slight char. At least one has some matting impressions. Use Trace: These have weathered ends, such that the breakage is pre-depositional and was probably intentional. Refits: Within group. Comments: These are really interesting. They are really twigs, but twigs which were accorded some special function. Dimensions given are maximum. Max no. indiv. objects = 19. some fragments show recent(clean) breaks - and these breaks refit. 11 of the fragments are 5-7 cm in length and 1.5 -2.5 cm in width. They are regular and do not exhibit branching. Could this represent some sort of broken implement or implements, such as a bow. I suspect that several pieces represent part of similar or the same artifact. One flat, wide fragment differs from the others, and may be a portion of atlatl or wooden mace or blade. There is at least one and possibly 2 fragments that have a sort of notch at the end. With the exception of the 1 wide fragment, these fragments are narrow and relatively thin. They resemble rib bones. Part 4 of 5
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Oct 2015
label: Site Number
content: 34LF40
label: Specimen Count
content: 24
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: A448911-3
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Wood Modified
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 18.8 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 4 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 2 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 229.1 g