Conch Shell Dipper, Engraved
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: Craig C Raw Material 2: Busycon sinistrum Element: Apical and body fragment - distal missing. Alteration: Weathered Manufacturing Notes: Hole in apex (spire) 1 cm in from shoulder and left of center. Design: Apex incorporated into design. Surface Modification: Incised Symbols: Snake, talon. Residue: Brown surface in spots, most of surface had chalked and pitted. Comments: Worm damage. What Joan Gardner (conservator) notes as holes in her notes are worm holes. Worm burrowed within the shell layers causing bulging of the layers on the inside. Snake w/ chevron body pattern and double flanking w/ bands that contain alternating 2 dotted circles with 4 || lines. 3 talon motifs above body snake, 1 below (faint). 2nd snake coils about the apex.
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: A448797-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dipper
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 24.3 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 18.4 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 12.7 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 886.9 g
label: Bore Diameter
content: ca. 0.32 cm