Interesting day out today...Effigy?

[BrettCo124]

Hey all,

Had a good day out. Weather cooperated, but we didn’t find much. However, I found something that stopped me dead in my tracks. I couldn’t believe it. Can someone help me ID this thing? It looks to be part of a pipe, but it’s very heavy and doesn’t feel like clay. It feels like stone. Found on a Maryland site that produces artifacts.

What do you think??

 

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[SportsmanAll]

Top two pics resemble smashed out lead bullets to me...

 

[villagenut]

Looks like a face to me. May be a part of a platform pipe.Definitly not a bullet.

 

[choo]

Nice point! The other piece looks like it might of came off a pipe or something & it does look like it has a face on it cool find!

 

[BrettCo124]

Thanks all! Pretty certain it’s the front of a pipe. But I’m curious if it is Native American. I do not believe it’s colonial. It feels like stone. But I’m not positive.

 

[Charl]

Thanks all! Pretty certain it’s the front of a pipe. But I’m curious if it is Native American. I do not believe it’s colonial. It feels like stone. But I’m not positive.

If it's stone, steatite or the related chlorite(usually both found in same outcrops) are the first choices for pipes, at least among Northeastern natives. It looks like a style of face I've seen often enough with human figures that are native in origin. Tough just going by your two photos, but initially, at least, I'd lean toward native, and maybe steatite, aka soapstone.

 

[SCrocks]

Cool finds!

 

[ghp95134]

...It looks to be part of a pipe, but it’s very heavy and doesn’t feel like clay. It feels like stone. Found on a Maryland site that produces artifacts.

What do you think??

Does it look like the below image of a Pennsylvania pipe ... Pennsylvania is in the same area of operation, right? Our borders weren't used way back then. (^__^)

 

[BrettCo124]

Does it look like the below image of a Pennsylvania pipe ... Pennsylvania is in the same area of operation, right? Our borders weren't used way back then. (^__^)

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It looks like the far left one but mine has more detail in it.

 

[ghp95134]

I found another citation: Viewing page [unnumbered] of pages 479-507. It's much clearer in the JSTOR link.



--GHP

 

[BrettCo124]

Thanks for helping ID! I’m definitely leaning towards Native American now. I’m stoked!

 

[Shorewalker]

Way cool!

 

[quito]

Lots of detail in that face! Very nice find!!!

 

[Indian Steve]

SOOOOOOOO NICE!

 

[NCPeaches]

It's a really cool face! The quartz is super nice too!

 

[BrettCo124]

Thanks everyone. I don’t think I’m going to clean it up. I like it as-is. What do you think? Clean it, or keep it with dirt on it? Here is a cool shot I took of it when I got it home:

 

[GaRebel1861]

What an awesome find!

 

[Shorewalker]

I'd probably clean it up.

 

[jmaschal]

It’s not ancient dirt clean that beauty up

 

[newnan man]

Don't scrub it too hard!