Chipped Scraper-Obsidian and Shell bead
date: label: Accession Date
content: 26 Nov 1937
name: label: Donor Name
content: J C. Braecklein
label: Site Name
content: Craig Mound
notes: label: Notes
content: Style: Uniface Raw Material 2: Pachuca Raw Material Source: Hidalgo, Mexico Luster: Glassy Element: Complete Shape/Form: Spatulate Edge Modification: Fine unifacial steep at tip, very fine elsewhere Manufacturing Notes: Notch off ventral lateral edge could have facilitated hafting. Basal edge damage from manuf + also probably from hafting. Striking platform. Use Trace: Fine edge damage along perimeter. dorsal ridge ground. Distal ventral has deep scalar edge damage. Some edge damage on ventral face but it is irregular. Deep scalar edge damage on 1B. Notch on ventral edge, removed from dir of dorsal to ventral. Fine grinding along lat edge (platform? for pressure flaking?) Comments: Incised shallow on ventral w/words "LeFlore Mound Okla". Other scratches on ventral surf also. This tool is suspicious. No other obsidian was recovered from Craig Mound during controlled excavations. This obsidian tool could easily be from Mexico - the style and appearance of the Raw material would be consistent w/Mexico. If this tool indeed came from Craig Mound, then this would be really interesting. Accession records place it in east tunnel of the mound. Appears Braecklein personally collected the piece, or was present when it was discovered. Recent analysis shows source as Pachuca (Barker, et al. 2002).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Oct 2015
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
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 145540
label: USNM Number
content: A378273-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Scraper
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 8.74 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 3.79 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 1.11 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 34.7 g