Is This a Bead?

[Jonzer]

Found another coffee can full of stuff in the garage.
Going thru it I found this.
Wasn't sure if it is a bead. The hole is very small and the cuts on each end aren't very clean.
Do you think it is a bead?

 

[unitas]

Looks like a broken clay pipe stem to me. Is it light?

 

[Jonzer]

I forgot to add that it is bone.

 

[bsit1361]

Looks like a crude bead but im no expert. I do have alot of trade pipe stems and if it wasnt bone id be sure that it would be one.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

I don't see any cut marks or polish of any kind on the ends so I would say no, not a Bead and just a piece of bone.

 

[joshuaream]

Jonzer,

If that is bone, it would be the first bone bead like that I've ever seen... Most bone tube beads were made from bird bones which have a naturally large hole in the middle. That piece looks like a really solid piece of material with a small hole though it. If it were bone, the native would have had to take a larger piece of bone (buffalo, deer, etc.) and grind down a tube, and then drill that tube. Bone splinters and cracks pretty easily, it would have been pretty darn hard for a Native to have made a piece like that.

Are you sure it's not shell or even a pottery stem like someone else mentioned?

Joshua

 

[Jonzer]

Naw, it's bone. The pic is bad but I can see the cavities and cells that bone has.
I must of thought it was nothing more when I found it.
It ended up in a coffee can full of broken scrapers and flakes.
The hole is too small to have been drilled with stone tools.
The ends are sharp like snapped.
I think the verdict is in. Not a bead.
Thanks guys.

 

[Jonzer]

Also:
I have a couple of clay pipes and broken stems.
This is not a clay pipe stem.