Polychrome Textile Fragments
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: 2719-J Style: Tapestry, Braided Element: Fragments Shape/form: Irregular Condition: Mechanical Manufacturing Notes: Typical weft twining closely spaced w/tight wefts. Warps are gone. 1 pc of oblique interlace (braid) in 1 section. Braid is >15 cm long. Design: Human faces. Residue: Some calcareous. Use Trace: Bundled Comments: Can see 2 human face designs on 2 diff fragments. Face has forked eye, facial paint. Joan Gardner (conservator) note reads: 1977 2719-J Unfolded bundle, one of 2 tricolor frags w/ human face profile. This one is very fragile, layers separated by plastic. Consists of lg frag + 4 smaller. 1 of the small is part of the largest and resides on top of it. Human face form clearly visible. Man wearing headdress. Part 11 of 27
label: Notes
content: A twined tapestry fragment of A423373 is illustrated Fig. 2.6, p. 32 of Drooker, Penelope B, "The Fabric of Power: Textiles in Mississippian Politics and Ritual," in Waselkov, Gregory A., and Marvin T. Smith. 2017. Forging Southeastern identities: social archaeology, ethnohistory, and folklore of the Mississippian to early historic South. Drooker notes the eye motifs, and identifies them as probably bird heads; see also text pp. 31 - 34.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Site Number
content: 34LF40
label: Specimen Count
content: 5
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: 228126
label: USNM Number
content: A423373-9
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cloth/Cordage
physicalDescription: label: Maximum Length - Object
content: ca. 35 cm
label: Maximum Width - Object
content: ca. 20 cm