Are these authentic stone carvings? Estate sale find.

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The bottom two look like abraders. Better pics of the drilled holes and the top rightmost piece would help. That's the only one of it's shape I recognize that may be a pendant. I don't have such good feelings about the rest. They don't appear to be utilitarian nor adornments and made from incised rock or stamped pottery(?). My $.02 worth.
 
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The bottom 2 look like arrow polishing tools, the rest look like newer reproduction or fakes depending on your point of view.
 
If the one at the top left is pottery, it's probably authentic. The plain one needs close-ups of the hole drilled in it. The two abraders are probably OK. The face and the fish are garbage.
 
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big no...if sold as a group I wouldn't touch any. when you close up the top left one you can see the Dremel work clearly!
 
Oh soooooo! That's Mr Bill!
 

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this is a NA etched stone...

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not mine. one of hundreds excavated in the early 2000's in Port Angeles WA, major Klallam site, Tse-whit-zen.
 

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