Whistle found after 1.5" rain yesterday

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Re: Whistle found after 1.5" rain yesterday

Excellent find Larson. The rain stayed just a few miles west of us yesterday.Wish we could get a good rain over here.
 

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Re: Whistle found after 1.5" rain yesterday

Great find Larson...We got about an inch here in the Red River Valley too. One of fields I like to hunt isn't planted
yet, so hopefully the rain "exposed" some artifacts and they are waiting to be found. Your finds continue to amaze me.

T.
 

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Re: Whistle found after 1.5" rain yesterday

I can't get a single sound out of any of the whistles I have found and I wish I could

I have read that the traders were amazed by the amount of different sounds the little Indian kids could make with these

they could imitate birds and all kinds of stuff
 

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Re: Whistle found after 1.5" rain yesterday

I was going to ask if you could get any sound out of those. Really cool whistles.
 

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Re: Whistle found after 1.5" rain yesterday

Now that is a very cool artifact. We find Bone Flutes here in my area, but nothing that looks like that. Ours are long and slender with 4 to 6 holes drilled into them. My buddy has one that he can play Mary Had A Little Lamb on. lol

Here 's a picture of one.
 

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Re: Whistle found after 1.5" rain yesterday

Wow Dorkfish, that is a nice flute, I have never seen one before

perhaps the natives had more musical talent than the natives around the Dakotas

how many flutes have you found?

I have about a dozen whistles, but no flutes
 

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Re: Whistle found after 1.5" rain yesterday

That is the only whole one I have, but I have numerous pieces of them.
 

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Re: Whistle found after 1.5" rain yesterday

yall are so fortunate to have found real treasures like these...am envious......and I WANT ONE !!!!! Thanks for sharing....to imagine the maker/carver of these items ==and the times they were used---lovingly,I am sure.....
 

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Re: Whistle found after 1.5" rain yesterday

Fantastic find. I have never heard of anybody ever finding a whistle in south Georgia. What part of the country are you from?
 

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Re: Whistle found after 1.5" rain yesterday

Americus, I am from the central Dakotas

I have about ten whistles a couple with engraving on them

this kind of stuff is Mandan culture witch is along and about 30 miles either side of the Missouri River
 

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