Straight-Stemmed Projectile Point
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: 2738 Raw Material 2: Keokuk/Boone, Mississippian Reed Spring Raw Material Source: Southern Ozarks Style: Johnson Luster: LS1 Shape/Form: Ovate Base: Concave Edge Modification: Inverse retouching with serration. Manufacturing Notes: Many stepped termins on secondary flaking scars. Unbarbed. Minimally retouched base. Comments: The usual gray chert. Areas lighter in color are dull and grainy. Also resembles Ellis points in beveling on right sides of blades (Bell, Robert. Guide to the Identification of Certain American Indian Projectile Points. Special Bulletin of the Oklahoma Anthropological Society, number 1. 1958) except the base doesn't expand enough. Johnson points shown in Perino 1968 (Perino, Gregory. A Guide to Certain Projectile Points. Special Bulletin of the Oklahoma Anthropological Society, number 3. 1968).
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: A423189-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Point
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 5.34 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 2.2 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 0.57 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 6.2 g
label: Proximal Stem Width
content: ca. 1.57 cm
label: Distal Stem Width
content: ca. 1.42 cm
label: Stem Length
content: ca. 1.13 cm