a chert blade and a bone (rib) knife handle

[larson1951]

I have about 8 or so knife handles, one had a metal blade in it
I have to find them and post them but for now here is a long knife handle and a blade
these were found in different spots and are not the specific blade for the handle

[uniface]

[GL]

That is an interesting thing. I always imagined wooden handles for some reason.

[joshuaream]

There is a split rib knife (the name for that type of knife) in the collection of the University of Montana that came from out near Wolfpoint, MT that has a reworked Eden stuck lenth wise like that.

You are a fortunate man to have a great site to hunt, I have to cheat and go really far away to have adventures like that.

Joshua

[blindpig]

That's pretty neat there Larson ,... I've even have found a "plains-knife" [I.D. here @ T-net ] in Mobridge S.D. , I never thought of it being "hafted" in this maner . It all makes more sense to me now , after seeing you pic . The over-all look of that long handled knife there ,. to me anyway , looks like in the right hands they could de-bone a bison in no time !!

As allways there Larson ,........very interesting , Thanks Blindpig

[abarnard]

Larson, that is too cool for school. You can see that the rib bone has been seperated to fit a blade. I bet that the combo of the blade and the rib bone made for one fine tool for the Indian. Thanks for sharing

[Americus]

You consistently post excellent artifacts. In what part of the country do you live?

[larson1951]

Americus, I lve in northern SD or extreme south ND
I was born in Mobridge

[scruggs]

NICE FINDS THERE!

[gilmerman]

Most of us only dream of finds like these

[naturegirl]

visiting your posts larson, is like going to t museum, only better, because the artifacts are shown being held by a human hand, not enclosed in a cold glass case. Thanks for sharing.

naturegirl