Larson
I was looking at that Turkey track on that rock. Do you think there is any way they may have used those stones as weapons? Maybe as a bola? That would be good to bring down a turkey and the track would make sense. I mean why put a turkey track on a fishing weight?? You know where they tie three rocks on ropes and throw it entangling prey? Just food for thought.
That bird track design is really cool. I know I've seen that bird track design on quite a few artifacts, but I just can't remember where...
For those that are GIRS members, there is a similar bird track design in Prehistoric American, pg. 28, #3, 2009. The design is etched into a celt found in Georgia.
GIRS Lars is the Genuine Indian Relic Society. They put out a great magazine, a very nice calender, and they now have an online newsletter called The Point.
refering to my last post
my wife is from the Sisseton sioux nation by Sisseton, South Dakota
there is a lake nearby at Waubay, South Dakota named Blue Dog Lake after my mother in law
it is close to Enemy Swim lake
this is where the Sioux made their enemy the Chippewa (the real name is Ojibwa but the pronunciation was hard for the white man so they said "Chippewa") swim across the lake when they drove them out of the area (many people drowned) TRUE STORY
You never stop amazing folks with your finds. The design of the fish hooks makes me think about their fishing methods. They would have to have sat with a taught line and more or less lifted the fish from the water with the slightest bite. As there is no barb and the hook would not have stayed put. Either that or they let the fish swallow the hook. Have you ever seen an indian fish hook with a barb? Is that a modern adaptation, I wonder?
Very nice collection. I have only one and it is of flint.
Keep 'em coming.
BW
"a consensus is merely the inability to make a decision"...Margaret Thatcher
I am a right in the middle of the dakotas, quite a ways from sisseton to the nw
these people left the hooks in the water over night so that the fish would swallow the hook
they caught catfish,walleye, sauger, freshwater drum, and large & smallmouth buffalo which were big
I have found awls and needles made from catfish pectoral spikes and one huge awl that had to have come from a 75 pound cat
i will post a few more hooks one huge hook and some tiny one in my next post
they are in a frame of mixed pieces
lars
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