Engraved Conch Shell Dipper
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: Braden B Raw Material 2: Busycon sinistrum Element: Apical and body fragments, distal missing Manufacturing Notes: See drawing in Phillips and Brown (Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma) 1987, PL 62 for cut away detail. Incised lines very thin and shallow. Design: Off center - one set right, another set left Surface Modification: Incised Symbols: Human heads w/falcon and streaming eyes, bi-lobed arrow, ogee with streamer, maces, perf pulley earspool, facial tattoo, beaded forelock, headdress. Residue: Fiber or something in apical fragment, and there are stains from fluid evaporation on inner, but these are scrubbed. Use Trace: Inner well scoured. Comments: Adhered to 1 frag of 448880 - apex. The 448880 fragment has been renumbered 448880-B, and the 448785 has been crossed out on the piece. I prefer using 448785 as the parent designation, even though a lot of the shell is 448880-B, because 447785 is a unique number. 2 heads have typical C shaped Craig style mouth, but the overall layout is Braden with heads on the right and ogee w/streamers on the left. I like the tassels tied to the protuberance on the corner of the crown mace. Perhaps this is what these protuberances were designed for.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Jan 2021
label: Site Number
content: 34LF40
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
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: A448785-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dipper
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 21.7 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 16.4 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 11.8 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 548.2 g
label: Bore Diameter
content: ca. 0.55 cm