Early Trade Items? HELP!

[Deft Tones]

Think I found a settlement or camp. Farmland I've been hunting near the DSM River along a former river channel. This is currently farmland, but some time prior to white settlement this field would have been at the edge of the river on the high bank side. Here are what I thought (noob relic hunter) were the better finds.





This item shows a woman's bust facing the left wearing Egyptian headress. It appears to be sheet of copper, embossed, and gilded. There are no noticable attachment points that might indicate this was part of something larger. Obviously hit by the disc a few times and I found it nearly crumpled in half. I have no idea what it is.



This bell was found in an adjacent approximately 600 yards upstream. Is this a horse bell traded to Natives?



This item is a thin copper piece embossed with a shell motif and a drilled hole in the end.



This next item is a bird of some type made from heavy brass I believe. The front and back look nearly the same. It appears there are two small points where it may have been broken from something. Very small round circles on the curved edge. (no photo)



Here is a button I have no hope to identify, but what the heck....



And finally I have this unusual lead piece. Roughly nickel size with a solid crossbar in the center. One piece cast.



Any ideas on the lead?

I'm ashamed to say I think I left a few small iron lead pots/lid along the side of the field. I've also tossed what I now suspect were metal arrowheads thinking it was cut scrap.

 

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[gunsil]

Looks like a sheep bell, and the lead item is definitely a hem weight.

 

[DCMatt]

Item 1 is a brass cameo pin of Cleopatra. Likely turn of the 20th C.

The last item is a hem or curtain weight.

The brass bird/eagle piece looks like part of a gas lamp bracket.

DCMatt

 

[Muddyhandz]

It will always be great to dig up relics at new site and you have a nice array but I do not see anything that screams out (fur) trade.
There's a possibility that the shell item was holed and worn as decoration but without the worked scrap pieces, there's no way to tell if it was a Native camp.
The small bell could also have been worn by Natives or more likely lost by a farm animal.
Your job is to hammer that site and add more information to your question in the form of more relics.
Cool finds thus far!
Cheers,
Dave.

 

[Deft Tones]

My area has long been a hot bed of Native American activity. I thought maybe the lead and pots I had found near the bell were an indication of a fur trapper camp.

This is also along the Dragoon Trail which was a known route for their forray up into the headwaters of the Des Moines River... and an item from them would be my dream.

There are literally thousands of acres of land for me to hunt along this area. Cropland mostly divided by patches of dense woods. Lot's of old river channel too.

Thanks for the leads.

What made me think it might be trade items was this photo I saw concerning Nebraska trade items:



The iron pot I left behind was that size without the handle. Combined with some tools I left and the lead....I was hoping anyway. Somewhere I lost the thimble in my bucket of relics.

The cut metal I tossed looked like the triangle piece in the center except they were broken or folded from the disc hitting them.

Thank you gentlemen.

 

[btjbtj]

That bird looks like a phoenix. Beautiful finds. Love the cameo. -Lisa

 

[oldsmith]

Nice assortment of finds mr tones, the bell looks to be a conastoga bell from a horse drawn wagon or sleigh