Harpoon for fishing maybe! Any big rivers/lakes in your area? Nice find.
yup the missouri river is close by but still several miles
we nicknamed it 'the harpoon' but i really got my doubts......however i value your opinions and we all know if we don't ask questions we would never learn anything
it is so thin i think it would break before it got through the scales on the species of fish here like walleye, sauger, sheep head etc
these all had to be caught on hook and line with a stone weight keeping the baited hook on the bottom, i mean right on the bottom where the river fish are
it possibly could pierce a catfish and there are and were plenty here
another thing i thought is if those are barbs why are they so far away from the so called leading end
i am not trying to say i am right and i appreciate the opinion
another thought but maybe or probably not was that it could have been used as a tool to thread squash rings for hanging and drying
but they hung squash rings on horizontal poles or stick supported on scaffolds
i thought maybe it was a toy or trinket of some sort
prob never know but maybe it is some kind of unfinished projectile point except it is so darn thin
i might have already rambled on too much here
when i hold it upside down the 'barbs" remind me of a keel on a sailboat
i have never seen anything like it
maybe it's a toy
