Wooden Effigy Bowl Handle
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: Effigy Element: Effigy & segment of bowl rim. Shape/Form: Bird Manufacturing Notes: Large eyes of inset concave shell discs (5.5cm diam ave.). Face is narrow 2.5 cm and along the width of the head is a crest formed by 3 insets of shell. The posterior inset (5.25cm long) is missing. Middle is 4.9 cm and has the matting. Anterior =2.8cm long. Beak 4 cm. Faces out from the bowl. Beak also had insets but these are missing. Design: 4 concentric rings around outside of bowl Surface Modification: Carved, incised Symbols: Bird Residue: Basketry-matting on crest (fiber .4cm wide). There is gunk in the insets which are missing, perhaps this is aboriginal glue. Would have been contaminated by preservatives. Comments: From a huge bowl, the arc of the vessel is quite shallow. A really amazing piece. 7 insets total.
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
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 272249
label: USNM Number
content: A448894-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Effigy
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 13.58 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 8.47 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 11.24 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 162.8 g