Florida artifact odds and ends

[GatorBoy]

Just rearranging and figured I'd post a few photos.
Wood working tools made from the lip section of the queen conch shell.


Broken queen conch adze and celt tools.






More wood working tools

 

[eastTNJoe]

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Some bone and other items

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Gator...love that in-situ of the blue point...so sweet!

 

[GatorBoy]

Thanks .. soooo happy I had the presence of mind and a camera that day.
..
rock... I caught 15 mackerel up to seven pounds in two hours just outside the St. Lucie inlet.

 

[GatorBoy]

That tiny Olivella bead, the shell half-cone thingy and that figure 8 shapish shell scraper thingy all blow my mind! Boom-Poof!!

That Duval is one of the nicest classic examples for the (sub)type I have ever seen in anyone's collection from FL!!!! It's Banner. (Note the diamond cross section@@@!!! muhaha)

http://smg.photobucket.com/user/tomclark/media/cassina.jpg.html

http://smg.photobucket.com/user/tomclark/media/img1286896837039.jpg.html

Ka-Pes-Ka-Da "Shellman"
http://smg.photobucket.com/user/tomclark/media/kapeskada.jpg.html

http://smg.photobucket.com/user/tomclark/media/_pr07198.jpg.html

These three?.. MMMmmuuuhuuhaha! LOL.

 

[monsterrack]

I don't know what to say G.B., but DANG that is some nice artifacts

 

[GatorBoy]

Thanks..I hadn't posted anything in a while so I just threw some out there.

 

[tomclark]

yep, dem's da three~!

 

[GatorBoy]

Hmmmm....
Sometimes I still have a hard time believing that blue point is a Duval because of how well made it is ...was just looking at this and it got me thinking.











It still has shades of Bolen to me also

 

[old digger]

Very Cool Finds! Like that shell pendant.

 

[GatorBoy]

Thanks o.d.

 

[Americus]

Very nice finds. I enjoyed seeing them.

 

[GatorBoy]

Thanks this thread is a couple years old just felt like throwing that information on here

 

[rock]

its a real nice looking point

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Great looking Florida artifacts guys.

This is my Florida assemblage. Some pretty nice pieces in this group.

 

[ghp95134]

I was wondering about the hole in the chonch shells, so I googled "conch with holes" and found a nice "American Anthropologist" (Vol. 23, 1920) article here

The author has illustrations (p. 15) showing how a handle could be halfted. Around p. 16 he also mentions that some Indians cut a hole to help release the conch from the shell.

Thanks for spurring my thinking.

--GHP

 

[GatorBoy]

Busycon Whelk shell adze
(Professor Shellman)

 

[GatorBoy]

Conch shell adze cut from shell body.
Some are cut from lip

 

[GatorBoy]

Different style whelk adze.
Thanks for posting Grim