Catlinite Pipe
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1958
name: label: Donor Name
content: Harry M. Trowbridge
label: Site Name
content: Craig Mound
notes: label: Notes
content: Originial Catalog Number: 2714 Style: Effigy - Irregular Luster: LS1 Shape/Form: Dog Alteration: Reconstructed Manufacturing Notes: Whittled, gouged, ground. Bowl was incised w/concentric rings. Bowl was orig. broken and repaired. Reconstructed portion painted to resemble orig surface, but not incised. Patch was filed with a metal file, leaving file marks on the catlinite near the joins. these file marks are also found in spots on the bowl. They appear as fine perfectly || sets of shallow incised lines. Design: Effigy head w/ incised symbols Surface Modification: Incised Symbols: Snake Residue: No prehistoric residue. There is paint and some form of filler used in reconstructing the bowl. Repaired surface is outlined w/ a thin yellow line. Use Trace: Bad breakage, not enough left to tell what kind of artifact this is. Comments: Rattlesnake incised on bottom. Bowl sits well forward right behind the head of a canine animal with an open mouth and well carved tongue. Teeth shown along mouth opening. Canine head has drilled eyes and drilled-through ears. Body of pipe has alternating excised diagonal bands. pipe constricts at butt. Surface coated w/ a sort of patina and on smoking end a lighter shade of red shows through. Style is late-seeming, and does ot fit well with other Spiro styles.
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: A423152-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Pipe
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 17.7 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 2.32 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 4.92 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 166.2 g
label: Bowl Height
content: ca. 2.92 cm
label: Bowl Diameter
content: ca. 1.76 cm
label: Bore Diameter
content: ca. 0.98 cm
label: Stem Length
content: ca. 13.13 cm