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Axes
& Stone Tools Page
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This page contains Axes, celts and other hard stone ancient native
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Indian relics. (See the flint tools page for "flaked" tools, such as
drills, scrapers, |
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knife blades,
etc.) |
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| RMTO1 |
An OUTSTANDING Plains Indian
Elk Horn Scraper, |
1,250.00 |
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circa 1870's era ! This is
the real deal. It is completely |
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original, including the iron
bit and buffalo lacing. It even has |
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a piece of buffalo hide that
encloses the blade extending out |
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the back. You rarely find these
scrapers with the metal bit |
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and the lacing, often they just
have the elk horn by itself. |
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The patina on this piece just
drips off of it. The evidence of |
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age on the lashings says it
all. This is a real scraper, used |
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on the Plains to scrape hides
for clothing and parfleche |
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containers. The size of this
one is massive, measuring 14" |
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long and 1 3/4" wide. It fits
beautifully into your hand with a |
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slight curve from ancient
shaping. The hide lashing fits into |
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a hole at the base of the horn
and the condition is excellent |
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with the bit slightly loose
from age but "all there". |
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A museum quality item at a
decent price |
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| MHTO896 |
An extremely rare pecked
and polished |
Recovered on the
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2500.00 |
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hardstone Pestle having
the original |
Columbia River in
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buffalo/bison (?) horn handle, probably from a
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Yakima Co., WA
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buffalo. A similar one is published in Charles
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(details to buyer) |
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Miles Indian & Eskimo Artifacts of North
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America, page 47, plate 1.261, number 4 |
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| MHTO897 |
A very nice and LARGE |
Recovered by
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2500.00 |
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pecked and polished |
Dr. H.H.Stuart |
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knobbed pestle
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on Gunther Island |
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in Humboldt Bay, CA |
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| MHTO898 |
An absolutely perfect
pecked and |
Recovered from the NW
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1,200.00 |
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polished stone Adze handle
attributed |
Pacific Coast in California |
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to the Californian Yurok tribe
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(no further documented
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provenance)
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| MHTO899 |
A very large steatite
Cooking |
Found by Dr. H.H. Stuart
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2200.00 |
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Bowl having some edge
nicks and |
on Gunther Island in
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a crack to one end, but still being |
Humboldt Bay, CA |
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intact. A very rare item
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| MHTO900 |
A very rare and nicely |
Found by Dr. H.H. Stuart
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2200.00 |
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polished black steatite |
on Gunther Island in
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Cooking Bowl having some
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Humboldt Bay, CA
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edge nicks but still intact
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Ex: Charley Mitchell |
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| MHTO901 |
Now this one's cute !... a
smaller brown |
Recovered from Trinidad
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850.00 |
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and black highly polished
steatite Cooking |
in Humboldt Co., CA |
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Bowl with a short handle. It has typical
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bruises here and there, but is still intact.
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A very rare item !
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| TO90 |
A nice black granite-like
ovular stone |
Found on the Olympic
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250.00 |
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shaft straightener having
flecks of white |
Peninsula in Washington |
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throughout. It has one groove on each
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side for straightening and tempering arrow |
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shafts. A superior example of this rare tool |
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| TO86 |
A fine grained gray basalt
flaked double |
Recovered in the
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225.00 |
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axe head having all the
proper traces of |
Nevada Desert |
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use wear and excellent mineralization as
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a testimony to it's antiquity. Quite a
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scarce item, and the first one we've
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handled in more than 20 years
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| TO87 |
A fine grained gray basalt
flaked combination axe |
Recovered in the
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200.00 |
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and hammer head having all
the proper traces of |
Nevada Desert |
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use wear and excellent mineralization as a
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testimony to it's antiquity. This one was probably
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used to knock out better flint material from
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outcrops at a quarry site and is quite a scarce item |
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| TO89 |
Now here's a BIG hunk of stone with a
story to tell... A very |
Recovered in
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375.00 |
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unique, one of a kind
pitted stone Canoe Anchor which was |
Klamath Co., OR
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later modified for use by a female as a food
processing mortar,
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having cupules on both ends !... Now when I first saw
this, I
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Ex: Vern Emmil |
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immediately knew it was the result of an ancient
divorce, where
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she got everything from a poor fisherman husband and
used it to |
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her advantage... but when my wife, who is of Asian
heritage
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looked at this piece, she disagreed with my theory and
went on
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to explain that if the ancient woman had divorced her
husband,
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the cupules would have been placed right over the
anchor
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grooves, vindictively erasing her husband's hard work,
but
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since the mortar cupules were placed on the ends, she
surmised |
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that this ancient woman lost her husband whom she
deeply
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loved and wanted him to be a daily memory in her life
as she
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did her mundane chores. My wife further explained that
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ancient woman probably was thinking of the very first
time her
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husband took her out onto the lake in his canoe on a
starlit night |
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and she remembered how the stars shown bright in his
eyes as
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he lowered this anchor over the side of the canoe and
lovingly...
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well, I just had to stop her right there... I mean,
YUCK !...
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gag me with a spoon...and besides, I like my story
better...
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you decide !
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| GBTO2 |
A very neat little notched |
Undocumented, most |
30.00 |
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orange-brown stone net
sinker |
likely Northern California |
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Ex: Charles Miles |
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A most interesting pair of
arrow shaft |
Recovered in
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180.00 |
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straighteners made from
salvaged remnants |
Santa Barbara Co., CA |
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of 2 stone bowls. One is made from black |
(Chumash Territory) |
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steatite and the other is made from a schist |
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which has a substantial amount of mica
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content. Both display a curvature on their
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undersides from the interior of the original
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bowls. Definitely a story written in stone !
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| TO88 |
A gray slate ovular knife
blade, well |
Recovered in the
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15.00 |
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ground into shape, but
having dings here |
Nevada Desert |
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and there. It was probably used to process |
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hides, as a combination scraper-knife tool |
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| MHTO633 |
A pretty nice polished
black steatite |
Found in |
600.00 |
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Arrow Shaft Straightener
having 2 |
Tulare Co., CA |
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working grooves on side A and 3
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scores on the underside for grinding |
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the bases of arrowheads. An
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extremely rare item seldom offered
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for sale anywhere. The surfaces are |
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a little bit on the rough side
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Ex: Michael Hough
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| MHTO819 |
An extremely rare Ram's
head effigy paint
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From the Hohokam |
850.00 |
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bowl carved from red lava
stone. It's in
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culture in Arizona
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perfect condition and comes with a gray
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(Pestle unknown, and |
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slate pestle, which might not be ancient,
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probably modern) |
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and which (with some sense of humor on |
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Michael Hough's part, I'm sure) was
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arbitrarily paired with this bowl.
Published |
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in Lar Hothem's Ornamental Indian
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Artifacts, page 131, plate 2 |
Ex: Michael Hough
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| MHTO618 |
A fairly large and well
made |
Recovered in
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6,500.00 |
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green and yellow Steatite |
Humboldt Co., CA
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stone bowl. Museum grade ! |
(details to buyer) |
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Ex: Michael Hough |
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| MHTO469 |
An Extremely RARE and HUGE |
Attributed to the |
3,000.00 |
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Museum grade brown patinated |
Chumash Indians, it was |
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steatite Arrowshaft straightener |
recovered near Goleta in |
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(and temperer) It has nice
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Santa Barbara Co., CA |
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intricate incised diamond
shaped |
Ex: L.L Valdivia |
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patterns on the faces to
either side |
Ex: Peter Gallick |
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of the shaft straightening grooves.
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Ex: Michael Hough |
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| MHTO244 |
A very rare and seldom
offered |
Recovered in 1934 |
900.00 |
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for sale anywhere black steatite
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by J.D. Herley at |
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shaft straightener in excellent
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Mill Creek, 4 miles |
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condition and having incised lines |
west of Visalia in |
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on the surface, sides and ends. |
Tulare Co., CA |
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Museum grade ! |
Ex: M. Hough |
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| TO78 |
The "Odd Couple" A dark tan
hardstone bean- |
Pestle: Found near Dorris CA |
325.00 |
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shaped mortar paired up with a dark gray,
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Mortar: Found in Gilroy, CA |
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somewhat porous hardstone pestle. The pestle
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Both found by the same relic |
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has nice usage polish lengthwise along the body
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hunter |
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and shows an interesting coloration difference
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from the way it was partially exposed for
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hundreds and hundreds of years, it also has 3
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"chips/chunks" missing from it's "working end"
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(ancient usage damage) |
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| TO80 |
A scarce medium-sized gray
stone "lap mortar" and |
These 2 were found together |
650.00 |
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a ball pestle. The mortar is fascinating because it
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in the foothills between San |
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was made with an angled bottom so that it could be |
Francisco and Berkeley in |
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used either "upright" or at a comfortable Californian |
Northern California |
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"layed-back" angle of about 30% (identical to the
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modern day "Cool" Californian drivers' seat angle...
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sorry folks... it's a fact... I know, I live here !)
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purely personal observations, I believe that the ball |
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pestle/mortar pairs pre-date the cylindrical
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pestle/mortars by a substantial range. |
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| TO81 |
An EXTREMELY RARE and quite
large DOUBLE- |
Recovered on a
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650.00 |
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holed mortar ! (This is only the 2nd one that I've
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private Ranch |
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EVER seen, and it is the "prettier" of the 2)
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between Oroville |
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that the native American Indian females worked side-
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and Paradise, CA |
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by-side, sometimes with FOUR generations gathered |
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all together ! (they left their "marks" of this fact
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many "bed rock mortar stones"... I've seen it myself,
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where 4 generations worked side-by-side at this
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"food processing" location, at Yosemite National Park
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It's still there folks... you should go see it !)
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| DATO451 |
A crudely shaped gray
basalt |
Found on the
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double notched Net weight |
Columbia River |
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in Oregon |
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| TO76 |
A HUGE tan chert Adz from
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Recovered in
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75.00 |
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Mississippian Period (800 to 1500 AD) |
Paris, Tennessee |
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