A VERY VERY RARE FIND FOR MS

[monsterrack]

https://www.sunherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article244400197.html. My cousin's son was with the guy when this was found and sent me a video of it, I knew it was an old bow but just not how old. So I set them up with a friend of mine in Jackson MS.by the name of James Starnes and the rest is history if to say a pun.https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3619736321374658&id=100000149771716 This is the video that was sent to me the day it was found.

 

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[MAMucker]

That’s a rare find anywhere. An amazing perishable artifact rescued and in incredible condition.

I’d be very interested in the dating process and means and methods used to preserve it.

 

[monsterrack]

That’s a rare find anywhere. An amazing perishable artifact rescued in incredible condition.

I’d be very interested in the dating process and means and methods used to preserve it.

At the moment it is still in the water that it was found in, just to keep it stable.

 

[Tpmetal]

since you know that area preserves stuff so well, I would go back and bury some modern stuff for the future! who knows, maybe in 500 more years someone will pull it out and marvel over it like we do this bow

 

[GaRebel1861]

What an incredible find. Find of a life time!

 

[old digger]

Wow! What an opportunity.

 

[sandchip]

Very cool. Just wish we had better pictures of it.

 

[Tnmountains]

That is cool as can be. I remember when I joined here a guy had found a canoe in the mud. Mud will preserve things a long time. Thanks for sharing that.

 

[Molewacker]

Wonderful find! Very happy it was donated to the NA.

 

[monsterrack]

Very cool. Just wish we had better pictures of it.

The video is the best I have at the moment, but I will get some better photo's of it.

 

[antmike915]

Wow, something you don't see everyday, amazing find.

 

[Buckleberry]

Really incredible find and awesome that he donated it to the Choctaw Nation.

Saw it here first and then noticed it had made it onto one of my favorite other sites:

https://www.archaeology.org/news/8879-200724-mississippi-choctaw-bow

 

[joshuaream]

That is very cool. I'm glad he's donating it somewhere simply because if he doesn't, the odds of it surviving another 20 years is slim. Bone relics are relatively easy to stabilize and preserve with Gomer's solution, or one of the other methods. Waterlogged wood though... As it dries it contracts and splits, mold, mushrooms, etc. The real problem though is bacteria when it's exposed to oxygen again. It's a more complicated of a task, and something museums can better handle. The bow is pretty thin, but I'd still guess it'll take several months to preserve it.

Those big canoes they find are often more of a headache than anything else. In Florida they record them, and rebury them.

 

[monsterrack]

UPDATE ON BOW
https://www.archaeology.org/news/8879-200724-mississippi-choctaw-bow

 

[crj1968]

Amazing !