Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Flintknapping => Topic started by: Badly Bent on September 15, 2013, 11:12:34 pm
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Heres some more pics of items found on my friends farm by his dad, him and his brothers over the years. Couldn't stop looking at his collection the past 3 days while visiting him and his wife. This is a sample of what they have found
on the farm over the years starting from the 1930's I believe. A few of the pieces he thought his dad may have gotten from somewhere else although he couldn't remember for certain. Thought I would share these pics with you guys, sorry for the low quality of the photos though.
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Nice collection!
There are some modern points in there.. but also some old ones that are killer.!
I see at least once piece of mook :D
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Sweet collection BB!! dp
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That is an awesome collection! Where is the farm?
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Wow, pretty impressive collection, I like some of the bigger stuff 8). Also like Jesse mentioned looks like a pc of mookite in there :o Bob
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Very cool. 8)
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I see everything from Paleo to Mississippian stuff. That farm must be located in some prime real estate and have a substantial water source very near. I'm guessing Texas from the look of the materials, but that is always an easy way to guess wrong!
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I think he said Illinois in an earlier post. dp
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Central Illinois is where the farm is located. Most of this went through a house fire a few years ago and he has been
cleaning it all up and sorting it out. He left the home place in the 50's or 60's and this collection represents years of finds by his dad, brothers and him though the years. My friend got many of the items in the last year after his brother passed.
He's not sure if all of it came off the farm but believes most did and said they found items often when when he was
young and still living at home. Neither he nor I have much knowledge about points and tools but I knew several here
would so thought I would post them and see what you guys thought.
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Where are you guys seeing a piece of mook, that little red jasper looking thing on the right on the one frame. I personally see nothing that one could ID as mook in those pictures. I do think there is a point or two that may be modern But I see no "mook". there are a lot of jaspers that are red with streaks of yellow in them. The points I suspect are the big Grey ghost/corner tang things and the hopewell/snydery looking one. the rest all look good to me.
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Yea the last pick bottom right is the mook suspect. Looks a lot like it to me but never know unless i could see it in person. could be local jasper maybe.
i suspect same points.
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Some nice finds,beautiful stuff. :)
Pappy
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In the last image in the middle top, there is a point that appears to have a dark rectangle on it. It has a concave base. That looks like a Clovis - could be quite valuable, FYI. The one above it may be a quite resharpened Eden.
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Thanks for the info DK. That dark rectangle on the clovis was from scotch tape that melted in the house fire. Like I said I don't have much knowledge about points but oddly that clovis head is the one I kept picking up and admiring
over the weekend. He gave me a couple as a gift and insisted I take whichever two I wanted but I just couldn't take
that one because I somehow felt it was special and wouldn't feel right about selecting it. :)
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Those knappers sure knew how to show off, some of these pieces are picture perfect!