Polychrome Textile Fragment
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 Style: Tapestry Twist: Z Element: Fragment Shape/form: Irregular Manufacturing Notes: Close twining w/2-2py wefts. Warps are gone. There is a feathery layer on the surface. Design: Human face Residue: Calcareous Comments: Face has forked eye and hawk nose. person wears a headdress of horiz. bands. Dotted diamond eye. The big problem with this piece is that I don't know which Harry M. Trowbridge catalog number it belongs with, because it is not listed on the plexiglas mount. Presumably its 2719, but the sub no. is debatable. 2719-J is the one w/ other faces, so maybe it goes with that one. Careful reading of whatever of Joan Gardner's (conservator) notes exist is necessary here. Part 27 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: 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: A423373-24
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cloth
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 16 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 16 cm