joshuaream
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After having drooled for many years over the Late Great Larson1951's finds, I found an auction near Fargo, ND and decided to go build a couple of frames.
Here is my new bone tool frame in progress that I recently put together. As I understand it from the auctioneer, the collection was found by a single collector on a primarily prehistoric/protohistoric Mandan site. Growing up in Northern Indiana, I saw collections of bone tools from other parts of the Midwest, but the soils in my area were not conducive bone preservation.
I say the frame is in progress. It's packed too tightly, but I'm keeping all the pieces in here while I go through an "Gomerize" the pieces that need preserving. I'll thin it out a bit an come up with a better layout eventually.
The whole frame:
Bone fishhooks:
The bit of the scapula hoe. Natives would break up the soil with stone axes/celts, and then maintain/fluff the loose soil with these bone hoes. They cut off the ridges and beveled the bit.
Bone fleshers for scraping and cleaning up hides. Heavy duty tools.
Worked bone, heavy duty stuff.
Awls.
More awls, socketed antler points, quill flateners, fishhooks, etc.
I realized I didn't put anything in there to scale. The frame is 48 inches wide.
Here is my new bone tool frame in progress that I recently put together. As I understand it from the auctioneer, the collection was found by a single collector on a primarily prehistoric/protohistoric Mandan site. Growing up in Northern Indiana, I saw collections of bone tools from other parts of the Midwest, but the soils in my area were not conducive bone preservation.
I say the frame is in progress. It's packed too tightly, but I'm keeping all the pieces in here while I go through an "Gomerize" the pieces that need preserving. I'll thin it out a bit an come up with a better layout eventually.
The whole frame:
Bone fishhooks:
The bit of the scapula hoe. Natives would break up the soil with stone axes/celts, and then maintain/fluff the loose soil with these bone hoes. They cut off the ridges and beveled the bit.
Bone fleshers for scraping and cleaning up hides. Heavy duty tools.
Worked bone, heavy duty stuff.
Awls.
More awls, socketed antler points, quill flateners, fishhooks, etc.
I realized I didn't put anything in there to scale. The frame is 48 inches wide.
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