Huffaker, abrader stone and unidentified piece.

[docmann]

Had just enough time this weekend to slip out to one of my favorite haunts. Found a couple of nice points along with this interesting abrader stone. Also, I'm not certain just what the fragment is. It is a piece of a larger, circular item. It also has several small holes, all similar in size. I now have two such items. Any ideas?

 

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[pickaway]

Nice finds and pics...

 

[Neanderthal]

Nice finds Doc, love the Huffaker. We used to find several of the perforated pottery disks on Wash'i'ta focus sites out in western OK. Nobody knows for sure what they used them for but a few popular theories are strainers or game pieces, more than likely the latter.

Here is an online free web-book that I thought you may like to check out, if you haven't already(just click on the book image). It's called Oklahoma Indian Artifacts - by Robert Bell. Bell was one of my heroes, even though I never got a chance to meet him personally. He sure done a lot for archaeology. http://www.ou.edu/cas/archsur/OKArtifacts/enter.htm

 

[docmann]

Thanks Matt,
I've actually wondered if these pieces might not function as some sort of strainer or sieve. Are these typically of the same size? Indeed, the two I have found were off tributaries of the Wash*ita, north Wash*ita county off of Boggie creek. Very common for Caddoan estab.
As always Matt, I appreciate your comments.
MM

 

[Tnmountains]

Doc the abrader stone is quite the find. Matt sounds right about the holes in the pottery. I have found lids with holes in them and thought the same thing. Wow your dirt is bright Congratulations on a good hunt sir !

 

[buckshot]

Nice finds docmann. Good hunting...

 

[docmann]

Thanks Pic, Matt, Buck, and Mountain man for the comments. An interesting twist to the story: I've tromped over this same field for the past several years and have found nothing older than the Wichita inhabitants dating around AD 1200 to 1500. Most of the points are Fresno, Wash*ita, Huffaker, Harrell, etc. This past Sunday, a man walks onto the filed whom I've never seen before (and who probably didn't have permission), but a nice guy, so we strike up conversation. He reaches into his pocket and pulls out this large point and says he just stumbled onto it after about ten minutes in the field. This piece no doubt of an earlier period. I know it sounds a bit greedy, but boy I sure would have liked to have stumbled onto this little jewel before he did. I just don't seem to pick up much of the older stuff. Nonetheless, I certainly can't complain about the day I had. PS Tennessee, you're right about the red dirt. My wife reminds me of this everytime I through my dirty socks in with something white.