Did I find a kettle point??

[quackertracker]

 

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[Tdog]

Not sure what a "kettle point" is.

 

[BennyV]

Not sure what a "kettle point" is.

I’m guessing one made of pot metal

 

[Tdog]

I don't think it's a Native American artifact. In fact, I'll go out on a limb and say it is not a Native American artifact.

 

[pepperj]

Not sure what a "kettle point" is.

This is a Kettle Point.

 

[Tdog]

A trade point then. Still, it doesn't look like any trade point I've ever seen. I've never heard the term 'kettle point' and I've been in the hobby for some 55 years.

 

[Older The Better]

Pepper j are those silver deals at the top also trade items of some sort?

 

[Tnmountains]

Native Americans would often use broken cast iron pots and form arrowheads during the transition where they lost all their technology. That being said I have not seen one with a lobed base.

 

[Older The Better]

Native Americans would often use broken cast iron pots and form arrowheads during the transition where they lost all their technology. That being said I have not seen one with a lobed base.

Kind of where I’m at… nothing like I’ve seen in my research of trade era artifacts but, when your talking home made its tough to say what they produced.

 

[quackertracker]

Not sure what a "kettle point" is.

Native American arrow heads made from broken kettles

 

[pepperj]

A trade point then. Still, it doesn't look like any trade point I've ever seen. I've never heard the term 'kettle point' and I've been in the hobby for some 55 years.

Associated with the fur trade era up here.
I've heard the term for most of my life.
There's many images and articles about the term/subject.

17th Century Native American “Kettle Point” Arrowheads

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[littlewindmill829]

Can you share photos of the other side and of the edges?

 

[smokeythecat]

If made of lead, no. If of brass, possible. I haven't seen one with a notched base, but it is a possibility. They were (on the East Coast) mainly 17th century items the American Indians made from imported brass kettles and they made the "arrowheads" out of them. What state did it come from and what is the material?

 

[quackertracker]

If made of lead, no. If of brass, possible. I haven't seen one with a notched base, but it is a possibility. They were (on the East Coast) mainly 17th century items the American Indians made from imported brass kettles and they made the "arrowheads" out of them. What state did it come from and what is the material?

Came out if a field in costal RI that’s produced a lot of stone points over the years

 

[MAMucker]

I don’t know if that is a kettle point, but it could be. These are associated with the Post-Contact transitional end to the Stone Age. The brass kettle in those days could be likened to our modern day plastic bucket.

Good article below:

Native Americans and the use of Brass Kettles©

Having looked at the use of brass kettles over an extended period of time (for they remained in use well into the 19th century), we’ll look at the brass kettle as used by Native Americans who acqui…

thehistoricfoodie.wordpress.com

 

[pepperj]

I don’t know if that is a kettle point, but it could be. These are associated with the Post-Contact transitional end to the Stone Age. The brass kettle in those days could be likened to our modern day plastic bucket.

Good article below:

Native Americans and the use of Brass Kettles©

Having looked at the use of brass kettles over an extended period of time (for they remained in use well into the 19th century), we’ll look at the brass kettle as used by Native Americans who acqui…

thehistoricfoodie.wordpress.com

Materials that were used as kettles, parts of keg bands, wagon wheel banding.
Here is a find from 50yrs +, from the shoreline of an interior lake in BC.
Not far from some pictographs that are on rock outcropping along the waters edge.

 

[joshuaream]

A handful of points that were cut from thin brass pots from the Dakotas.

 

[Tdog]

I stand educated with the terminology. I'm still not seeing a point that has been fashioned by man.

 

[joshuaream]

I stand educated with the terminology. I'm still not seeing a point that has been fashioned by man.

I've never heard the term kettle point before either.

 

[Charl]

Illustration of New England examples of points fashioned from cut brass and copper kettles. All likely 17th century.