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: Braden A Raw Material 2: Busycon sinistrum Element: Shoulder & body w/ lower body fragment Alteration: Chemical Manufacturing Notes: Rather uninspired workmanship w/ scraggly lines and over cutting. Knobs left visible Surface Modification: Incised, excised Symbols: Bi-lobed arrow, bird head, human head w/ roach, beaded forelock, forked eye, hairpin Residue: Very thick textile residue along right edge & small bit on left edge, in which traces of weaving are extant. Almost appears melted on. This shell was sitting design upright, which seems unusual given the distribution of residues on the rounded bottoms of vessels. Resinous quality. Use Trace: Residue says something about deposition if not use. Breakage along right edge truncates residue, indicating it occurred post depositionally. Comments: 2 frags 448860, 2 frags 448880 all refitted. Large heads wearing bi-lobed arrows. Left portion of shell missing. Phillips & Brown Pl. 12 (Pre-Columbian Shell Engravings from Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma) shows the body portion, but since the rubbing was taken, Joan Gardner, conservator, was able to refit a large chunk of shoulder and apex.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Aug 2016
label: Site Number
content: 34LF40
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
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: A448860-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dipper
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 24 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 15 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 9.6 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 472.8 g