Axes & Stone Tools Page

This page contains Axes, celts and other hard stone ancient native American
Indian relics. (See the flint tools page for "flaked" tools, such as drills, scrapers,
knife blades, etc.)

Item: Description: Price
RMTO1 An OUTSTANDING Plains Indian Elk Horn Scraper,   1,250.00
  circa 1870's era !   This is the real deal.  It is completely  
  original, including the iron bit and buffalo lacing.  It even has  
  a piece of buffalo hide that encloses the blade extending out  
  the back. You rarely find these scrapers with the metal bit  
  and the lacing, often they just have the elk horn by itself.  
  The patina on this piece just drips off of it. The evidence of  
  age on the lashings says it all.  This is a real scraper, used  
  on the Plains to scrape hides for clothing and parfleche  
  containers.  The size of this one is massive, measuring 14"   
  long and 1 3/4" wide. It fits beautifully into your hand with a  
  slight curve from ancient shaping.  The hide lashing fits into  
  a hole at the base of the horn and the condition is excellent  
  with the bit slightly loose from age but "all there".  
  A museum quality item at a decent price  

Item: Type: Provenance: Price
MHTO896 An extremely rare pecked and polished Recovered on the 2500.00
hardstone Pestle having the original Columbia River in
buffalo/bison (?) horn handle, probably from a Yakima Co., WA
buffalo. A similar one is published in Charles (details to buyer)
Miles Indian & Eskimo Artifacts of North
America, page 47, plate 1.261, number 4

Item: Type: Provenance: Price
MHTO897 A very nice and LARGE Recovered by   2500.00
pecked and polished Dr. H.H.Stuart
knobbed pestle on Gunther Island
in Humboldt Bay, CA

Item: Type: Provenance: Price
MHTO898 An absolutely perfect pecked and Recovered from the NW  1,200.00
polished stone Adze handle attributed Pacific Coast in California
to the Californian Yurok tribe (no further documented
provenance) 

Item: Type: Provenance: Price
MHTO899 A very large steatite Cooking   Found by Dr. H.H. Stuart 2200.00
Bowl having some edge nicks and on Gunther Island in
a crack to one end, but still being Humboldt Bay, CA
intact. A very rare item

Item: Type: Provenance: Price
MHTO900 A very rare and nicely Found by Dr. H.H. Stuart 2200.00
polished black steatite on Gunther Island in
Cooking Bowl having some Humboldt Bay, CA
edge nicks but still intact Ex: Charley Mitchell

Item: Type: Provenance: Price
MHTO901 Now this one's cute !... a smaller brown Recovered from Trinidad 850.00
and black highly polished steatite Cooking in Humboldt Co., CA
Bowl with a short handle. It has typical
bruises here and there, but is still intact.
A very rare item !

Item: Type: Provenance: Price
TO90 A nice black granite-like ovular stone Found on the Olympic 250.00
shaft straightener having flecks of white   Peninsula in Washington
throughout. It has one groove on each
side for straightening and tempering arrow
shafts. A superior example of this rare tool

Item: Type: Provenance: Price
TO86 A fine grained gray basalt flaked double Recovered in the 225.00
axe head having all the proper traces of Nevada Desert
use wear and excellent mineralization as
a testimony to it's antiquity. Quite a
scarce item, and the first one we've
handled in more than 20 years

Item: Type: Provenance: Price
TO87 A fine grained gray basalt flaked combination axe Recovered in the 200.00
and hammer head having all the proper traces of Nevada Desert
use wear and excellent mineralization as a
testimony to it's antiquity. This one was probably
used to knock out better flint material from
outcrops at a quarry site and is quite a scarce item

Item: Type: Provenance: Price
TO89 Now here's a BIG hunk of stone with a story to tell... A very Recovered in 375.00
unique, one of a kind pitted stone Canoe Anchor which was Klamath Co., OR
later modified for use by a female as a food processing mortar,
having cupules on both ends !... Now when I first saw this, I Ex: Vern Emmil
immediately knew it was the result of an ancient divorce, where 
she got everything from a poor fisherman husband and used it to
her advantage... but when my wife, who is of Asian heritage
looked at this piece, she disagreed with my theory and went on
to explain that if the ancient woman had divorced her husband,
the cupules would have been placed right over the anchor
grooves, vindictively erasing her husband's hard work, but 
since the mortar cupules were placed on the ends, she surmised
that this ancient woman lost her husband whom she deeply
loved and wanted him to be a daily memory in her life as she
did her mundane chores. My wife further explained that the
ancient woman probably was thinking of the very first time her 
husband took her out onto the lake in his canoe on a starlit night
and she remembered how the stars shown bright in his eyes as
he lowered this anchor over the side of the canoe and lovingly...
well, I just had to stop her right there... I mean, YUCK !...
gag me with a spoon...and besides, I like my story better...
you decide !

Item: Type: Provenance: Price
GBTO2 A very neat little notched Undocumented, most 30.00
orange-brown stone net sinker likely Northern California
Ex: Charles Miles

Item: Type: Provenance: Price
DGTO2 A most interesting pair of arrow shaft Recovered in 180.00
straighteners made from salvaged remnants   Santa Barbara Co., CA
of 2 stone bowls. One is made from black (Chumash Territory)
steatite and the other is made from a schist
which has a substantial amount of mica
content. Both display a curvature on their
undersides from the interior of the original
bowls. Definitely a story written in stone !

Item: Type: Provenance: Price
TO88 A gray slate ovular knife blade, well Recovered in the 15.00
ground into shape, but having dings here  Nevada Desert
and there. It was probably used to process
hides, as a combination scraper-knife tool

Item: Type: Provenance: Price
MHTO633 A pretty nice polished black steatite Found in 600.00
Arrow Shaft Straightener having 2 Tulare Co., CA
working grooves on side A and 3 
scores on the underside for grinding
the bases of arrowheads. An
extremely rare item seldom offered 
for sale anywhere. The surfaces are
a little bit on the rough side Ex: Michael Hough

Item: Type: Provenance: Price
MHTO819 An extremely rare Ram's head effigy paint From the Hohokam 850.00
bowl carved from red lava stone. It's in culture in Arizona
perfect condition and comes with a gray (Pestle unknown, and
slate pestle, which might not be ancient,  probably modern)
and which (with some sense of humor on
Michael Hough's part, I'm sure) was  
arbitrarily paired with this bowl. Published
in Lar Hothem's Ornamental Indian
Artifacts, page 131, plate 2 Ex: Michael Hough

Item: Type: Provenance: Price
MHTO618 A fairly large and well made Recovered in 6,500.00
green and yellow Steatite Humboldt Co., CA
stone bowl. Museum grade ! (details to buyer)
Ex: Michael Hough

Item: Type: Provenance: Price
MHTO469 An Extremely RARE and HUGE Attributed to the    3,000.00
Museum grade brown patinated Chumash Indians, it was
steatite Arrowshaft straightener recovered near Goleta in
(and temperer) It has nice and Santa Barbara Co., CA
intricate incised diamond shaped  Ex: L.L Valdivia
patterns on the faces to either side Ex: Peter Gallick  
of the shaft straightening grooves. Ex: Michael Hough

Item: Type: Provenance: Price
MHTO244 A very rare and seldom offered Recovered in 1934 900.00
for sale anywhere black steatite by J.D. Herley at 
shaft straightener in excellent   Mill Creek, 4 miles
condition and having incised lines west of Visalia in
on the surface, sides and ends. Tulare Co., CA
  Museum grade ! Ex: M. Hough  

Item: Type: Provenance: Price
TO78 The "Odd Couple" A dark tan hardstone bean- Pestle: Found near Dorris CA  325.00
shaped mortar paired up with a dark gray, Mortar: Found in Gilroy, CA
somewhat porous hardstone pestle. The pestle Both found by the same relic
  has nice usage polish lengthwise along the body hunter  
  and shows an interesting coloration difference    
  from the way it was partially exposed for    
  hundreds and hundreds of years, it also has 3    
  "chips/chunks" missing from it's "working end"   6/17
  (ancient usage damage)   ON-HOLD

Item: Type: Provenance: Price
TO80 A scarce medium-sized gray stone "lap mortar" and These 2 were found together 650.00
a ball pestle. The mortar is fascinating because it   in the foothills between San
was made with an angled bottom so that it could be Francisco and Berkeley in
used either "upright" or at a comfortable Californian Northern California
"layed-back" angle of about 30% (identical to the
modern day "Cool" Californian drivers' seat angle...  
sorry folks... it's a fact... I know, I live here !) From
purely personal observations, I believe that the ball
pestle/mortar pairs pre-date the cylindrical 6/17
pestle/mortars by a substantial range. ON-HOLD

Item: Type: Provenance: Price
TO81 An EXTREMELY RARE and quite large DOUBLE- Recovered on a 650.00
holed mortar ! (This is only the 2nd one that I've private Ranch
EVER seen, and it is the "prettier" of the 2)  It's a fact between Oroville
  that the native American Indian females worked side- and Paradise, CA  
  by-side, sometimes with FOUR generations gathered    
  all together ! (they left their "marks" of this fact in    
  many "bed rock mortar stones"... I've seen it myself,    
  where 4 generations worked side-by-side at this    
  "food processing" location, at Yosemite National Park !...   6/17
  It's still there folks... you should go see it !)   ON-HOLD

Item: Type: Provenance: Price
DATO451 A crudely shaped gray basalt Found on the 22.00

double notched Net weight

Columbia River
in Oregon

Item: Type: Provenance: Price
TO76 A HUGE tan chert Adz from the Recovered in 75.00
Mississippian Period (800 to 1500 AD) Paris, Tennessee

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