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BIG
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This page features ancient Native American Indian "BIG Blades", over-sized knife blades of all sorts, from
Wealth blades, to Salmon knives to Dance blades, etc... These are very rare
items which are seldom offered for sale anywhere, as very few survived the
ages intact, and many more were intentionally "killed" (broken up) when the owner went
to the happy hunting grounds. |
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| MHBB1569 |
Just as perfect as they come, a
very striking and VERY long G10+ |
Recovered from |
4200.00 |
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Mahogany Obsidian Colima
Ceremonial Knife Blade displaying flaking |
Colima, Mexico |
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patterns to die for. It's thoroughly and intricately
flaked on every single
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millimeter across both surfaces; obviously created by
a Master knapper
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who really got into his work. One of the best we've ever
seen! |
Ex: Michael Hough |
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| DFBB2 |
A HUGE, broad Late Paleo/Early
Archaic period stemmed hafted |
Recovered in SE Oregon |
2200.00 |
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Obsidian Butchering Knife
form which is well flaked on both faces, |
which is Paleo territory |
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mostly by percussion technique. It shows heavy river
polish, and must
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have been setting on a shoreline for thousands of
years before the water
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body dried up, leaving a fair amount of caliche
deposits on side B. It's a |
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bit on the asymmetrical side with a nice rounded base,
and it leaves little |
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doubt that it wasn't used to skin rabbits! This was a
big-game processor |
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and would make an excellent centerpiece to any western
collection. |
Stermer COA |
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| JABB1 |
A HUGE, and very sturdy
medium-gray dacite Parman Type I Butchering |
Recovered from |
1800.00 |
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Knife/Dagger form. This is
an unbelievably RARE piece, and the first one |
Lake Co., OR
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we've ever handled of this type in this size. Flaking
patterns are thorough to
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both faces, strictly by percussion flaking and even
the resharpening
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edgework appears to have also been done through direct
percussion flaking. |
Ex: Alex Harding
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Definitely a work-horse of a blade which saw much use
in ancient times.
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| BBFT1 |
A simply breath-taking,
very long light blue flint |
Recovered in
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3800.00 |
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Corner Tang Knife blade
having very thorough |
Bell Co., TX |
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flaking patterns on both faces, essentially to a
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median ridge. The craftsmanship of this blade
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has no equal that we've ever seen. A totally
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intact and quite rare ancient blade.
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| DFBB1 |
A really fine and intricately worked MONSTER obsidian
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750.00 |
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Cascade butchering knife blade. Well flaked on both
faces
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Harney County, Oregon |
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by a very advanced knapper. It has a nice frosty
patina, and
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has a truncated base. A most attractive piece.
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| GEBB1 |
A VERY long and slender
mahogany obsidian Colima |
Recovered in |
1800.00 |
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"Threshold" Blade having
very intricate and thorough |
Colima, Western Mexico |
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flaking patterns to a median ridge on both faces. It
has
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an ancient shear to the base as well as a lateral
fracture
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to the tip (photos 5-10), still an attractive piece
worthy
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of centerpiece status in a deserving collection. |
Jackson COA |
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| RPBB1 |
An outstanding very light
gray chert Lerma Pointed Base BIG game |
Found on the Arkansas River in |
1600.00 |
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hand-held butchering knife
blade which is very thin for it's size. Just an |
Oklahoma by B. McClemore |
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outstanding piece which is well formed with thorough
percussion flaking
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patterns on both faces and having nice secondary
pressure flaking
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mostly in a left-handed beveling fashion. It has 2 old
(not recent, but not |
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from ancient usage at the time of manufacture) nicks
to one blade edge
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near the tip. (photos 5 & 8) Still a beautiful MONSTER
blade worthy
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of centerpiece display in any worthy collection.
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Ex: Greg Perino Collection |
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| TMFFT1 |
A HUGE, heavily patinated
light green Franciscan chert uni-faced |
Offered by the original finder |
950.00 |
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Trade Blank most likely
from the Paleo period. It has thin crystal |
who recovered this one on a
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vein lines at the base and a few more recent (slight)
edge nicks near |
bluff in Clements, California in |
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the tip, which expose the true, unpatinated darker
green color of
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San Joaquin County. |
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the host material. (Photo 5) This one is the largest
Trade Blank
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we've handled to date. Additionally, it has a smaller
section of the
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original hoststone's cortex on the base. (Photo 6)
This one would
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make one HECK of an impressive centerpiece to any
collection! |
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| ACBB1 |
A HUGE, meaty purple and
lavender rhyolite |
Recovered from |
400.00 |
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Butchering Blade made in
the same form as |
Mesa, AZ |
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Augustine dart points, from the Archaic
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period, between 5,000 and 7,000 years old
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| MBBB1 |
A BREATH-TAKING
spiral-banded blue-gray chert |
Belize, Central America |
1,000.00 |
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Mayan Knife blade, well
flaked on both faces, mostly by |
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percussion flaking. This one appears to be as fresh as
the
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day it was made and is just an OUTSTANDING artifact! |
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| BWBB1 |
A HUGE and very broad
iridescent obsidian Modoc knife blade |
Recovered in
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showing good caliche
deposits. It is well flaked on both faces |
Lassen County, CA
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but has
restoration to one edge
starting at 2-1/2" up from the |
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base and running a total
length of 1-3/4" with a width of 1/2". |
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(Photos 12 and 14) The
opposing edge has less restoration |
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starting at 3" up from the
base and running a length of 5/8" with a |
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width of 3/8". (Photos 13
and 15) The base is somewhat |
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irregular, but this is
still a very scarce item which displays well. |
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A note on the
"restoration", I've been told by this consignor that the |
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actual damage to the blade is only 1/4" deep from the
strike of a
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shovel, so the actual damage is less than 1/2 of
the area which
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was mentioned above, as the restoring material was
spread out
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over a wider area to stabilize the nicked area
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| BB1 |
A MONSTER of a blade !!! A
super super |
From West-Central
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675.00 |
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nice and HUGE Edwards chert Refugio
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Texas
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knife blade. As per the Perino COA: "A |
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large knife form that has had one retouch |
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re-sharpening that barely reduced the size of |
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the blade". They don't come any better than |
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this one, folks !
A GREAT collection centerpiece! |
Perino COA |
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| BB2 |
A LARGE and STUNNING
blue-gray |
Recovered from
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750.00 |
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Indiana Hornstone (Harrison County chert)
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Warrick County,
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Benjamin knife blade having a small section |
Indianna |
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of the original rind at the base and what |
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appears to be the original striking platform. |
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A real piece of artwork ! |
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End of the BIG
Blades page
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