intensecrasher
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- Apr 6, 2014
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Neat piece. I've seen a lot of darker Catlinite pipes, but never a piece that dark. Was it in a really hot fire or something?
The Hopewell made some non-functional items out of pipestone (mostly Illinois and Ohio quarries, not so much from the Catlinite quarries.) I'm sure some of the later Mississippian groups did the same and they used the Catlinite quarries extensively. Historic groups made decorative items out of it, lots of axes, but I've seen Model T ford keys, wrenches, coke bottles, etc.
Are you sure that material isn't slate? From the picture, it looks a lot more like slate. Also, the celt looks to have a fair amount of use wear, so I would be suspect of it being called ceremonial.
Very nice piec and quite interesting. What other point types and pieces were you finding at the site with it?
Hippy
I know of no Native Tribe that would use catlinite as a tool, it was reserved for pipes, effigies and jewelry pieces, we thought so highly of the pipe stone that during the construction of the pipe NONE of the left over pieces or even the dust went to waste.
Nice piece though.