Engraved Conch Shell Dipper 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: Braden C Raw Material 2: Busycon sinistrum Element: Body fragment Alteration: Weathered Manufacturing Notes: Relatively shallow crude execution Design: Scattered pattern Surface Modification: Incised Symbols: Human heads, headless raccoon hair ornament, rayed concentric half ovals, beaded forelock, forked eye, snake Residue: Patches of ocher like residue on outer and inner where it is thickest distal. Could be analyzed from this specimen Use Trace: Residue Comments: See Phillips and Brown PL 104 for description of disjointed patterns. 2 frags have been readhered, both no. 448854. Another frag 448861 matches as per Phillips & Brown, 1983 Pl. B-8G (Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma. Vols VI-VI). April K. Sievert 5/92 does not see a refit, but the style is very similar.
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: 272249
label: USNM Number
content: A448854-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dipper
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 20.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 12.88 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 7.7 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 254.3 g