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: Craig A Raw Material 2: Busycon sinistrum Element: Body fragment Alteration: Weathered Manufacturing Notes: Excised patches in breechclout. Design: Dancer. Surface Modification: Incised, excised Symbols: Hawk man w/lg wing, beaked human face, beaded forelock, feather plumes, columella pendant w 3/apical bands, apron or scalp plaque below waist, perf pulley earspool, 2 waist rolls. Residue: Orange organic inside. Comments: Joan Gardner, conservator, notes hand similar to mortuary figure in A448865 + A448861 + A448880. Very ornate and complicated design. 3 very long vertically hanging plumes. Knee is raised to figure's right in dancing, and the arms swing to the figure's left. Very animated. Apron has square center and lines coming out of it that could be hair decorated with convexo-cylindrical beads. Refitted to a frag of A448861.
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: A448825-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dipper
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 15.6 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 17.7 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 8.7 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 300.8 g