Author Topic: Why didn't the Indians use Mahogany Obsidian?  (Read 9591 times)

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Offline bubby

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Re: Why didn't the Indians use Mahogany Obsidian?
« Reply #15 on: June 13, 2013, 06:04:33 am »
I think that a lot of them were used as ceremonial points and buried with the dead, at least in the lassen complex
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Offline billy

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Re: Why didn't the Indians use Mahogany Obsidian?
« Reply #16 on: July 02, 2013, 11:37:48 pm »
Those are cool.  I have heard that some of the Northern California tribes believed that red jasper had supernatural poison, and was preferred over other, duller colored flints.  I wouldn't be surprised if there were other superstitions about different flints in other tribes around the country. 
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Offline flungonin

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Re: Why didn't the Indians use Mahogany Obsidian?
« Reply #17 on: July 03, 2013, 09:13:28 am »
Dharma could you post a picture of the point you referred to?