larson1951
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well this morning i wake up to about ten inches of snow and the temperature is -10 (yup, ten degrees below zero, i am serious)
so i decide to look through this stack of about seventy frames of stuff i had not looked at in about a year
i ran across two frames of beads.... both have bird bone beads
one has a lot of scoria beads with a few misc including catlinite, etc
second one has a bunch of mussel shell beads which were made from the missouri river mussels
the mussel shells are poor eating but were useful for making beads , ornaments, and most of all they were pulverized and
mixed with river bank clay and ashes to make the black pottery we find here
next i found a frame of fish hooks
the 3 that i have in my hand are my largest but some place i have a bigger one that is broke.....twitkos son trovert gave it to me as a token of friendship
i also show two images of fish hook blanks, the bigger one shows an almost finished hook, while the smaller one is unfinished sitting next to two much smaller and delicate blanks
note that in the mandan culture the heavy larger hooks were made from split rib and the smaller delicate types
were made from bird bones (like turkey)
it looks like Twitko and i can't go surface hunting for a while now so we will get out our guitars and hammer out some some Blues
so i decide to look through this stack of about seventy frames of stuff i had not looked at in about a year
i ran across two frames of beads.... both have bird bone beads
one has a lot of scoria beads with a few misc including catlinite, etc
second one has a bunch of mussel shell beads which were made from the missouri river mussels
the mussel shells are poor eating but were useful for making beads , ornaments, and most of all they were pulverized and
mixed with river bank clay and ashes to make the black pottery we find here
next i found a frame of fish hooks
the 3 that i have in my hand are my largest but some place i have a bigger one that is broke.....twitkos son trovert gave it to me as a token of friendship
i also show two images of fish hook blanks, the bigger one shows an almost finished hook, while the smaller one is unfinished sitting next to two much smaller and delicate blanks
note that in the mandan culture the heavy larger hooks were made from split rib and the smaller delicate types
were made from bird bones (like turkey)
it looks like Twitko and i can't go surface hunting for a while now so we will get out our guitars and hammer out some some Blues
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