Human Effigy Pipe
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: Effigy Raw Material 2: Oolitic Luster: Dull Shape/form: Human Alteration: Weathered Manufacturing Notes: Manufacturing traces mostly obliterated by weathering. Round pot has indented standing flat rim. Design: Kneeling human holding pot. Surface Modification: Polished Symbols: Open mouth, seated figure Residue: Sediment, sooty residue and cake in bowl. Bore is clogged w/residue. Some brown residue on posterior face. Use Trace: Inside of bowl is darkened from burning. Surface leached and eroded away, but features are still visible. Comments: Figure kneeling w/legs folded underneath body. Arms are outstretched holding up round pot which forms the pipe bowl. Stem issues from abdomen. Head is slightly turned to the rt. side. Pot (bowl) is held slightly to the left side, so that the pot is not precisely above the stem. Lg nose and mouth visible. Ears are modelled realistically. Long hair or headdress flows down the back of the head and extends to the waist. Original surface is visible on the posterior base, where the buttocks are clearly modelled. Original surface also extant on the outer posterior pot (bowl), which may have been protected. Triangular extension of a triangular form between the buttocks on the base might be genitalia.
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
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: A448663-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 10.72 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 6.66 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 13.49 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 1112.6 g
label: Bowl Height
content: ca. 3.1 cm
label: Bowl Diameter
content: ca. 2.75 cm
label: Bore Diameter
content: ca. 2.37 cm
label: Stem Length
content: ca. 3.6 cm