Painted Chipped Stone Mace
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1958
name: label: Donor Name
content: Harry M. Trowbridge
label: Site Name
content: Craig Mound
notes: label: Notes
content: Original Catalog Number: 2715 Luster: Dull Edge Modification: Deep bifacial thinning and secondary retouching. Alteration: Paint Manufacturing Notes: Considerable stepping. A rather thick blade, but if one wants to make an artifact as big as this, thickness will offer support for a stronger piece. Pressure flaking along edge not necess fine. Residue: Red ocher covers 1/2 of mace (longitudinally) on both faces. This was either painted or rubbed w/ ocher. Tiny bits of a yellow pigment or residue overlays red and untreated surf. Some darker brown stains are present along edge. Use Trace: One upper shoulder broken, as is part of the stem. The stem is narrow given tool size and would be the first place to break. Upper edges & esp edges not colored are polished and worn (rounded). Comments: Fits well into Brown's mace typology as classic type 2 (James A. Brown. The Artifacts. Second Part of the Third Annual Report of Caddoan Archaeology. 1976. Figure 30). Raw material is grainy and colors given are for weathered and fresh surfaces respectively.
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
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 228126
label: USNM Number
content: A423197-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mace
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 28.9 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 10.47 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 2.25 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 540.8 g
label: Proximal Stem Width
content: ca. 4.25 cm
label: Distal Stem Width
content: ca. 5.26 cm
label: Stem Length
content: ca. 6.5 cm