BosnMate
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In a post I titled Atl atl, I made a guess that the rock was an atl atl weight, but it seems that I was wrong, and it's more likely a fishing weight, so I'm not even going to say what my guess is on the first one. This artifact has sat outside with some bowls and other things for years. It's splattered with red paint because someone was too lazy to move it when they painted the house. It came into my possession about three years ago. If anyone has any information on what this could be, I'd sure be interested.
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The next item is of course an axe, and it's been around as long as I can remember, and I doubt very much that it comes from California. I've never seen anything else like it in anyone's collection or in a museum. Probably in the neighborhood of 65 years ago, in the days of cowboys and Indians at the Saturday matinee movie, I took a forked stick, and made me a tomahawk, using rawhide boot laces to tie the head in place. I don't remember, but I wouldn't be a bit surprised if there weren't some red chicken feathers on it also. When it was done, I decided that it needed some blood on the stone part, to make it look "authentic." So for blood, I took some red geranium flowers, (we had plenty of them along the garage wall) and smeared the crushed flower on the edge of the blade, and to this day, if you look closely, you can still see some of the stain remaining. I don't know why the axe didn't get broken or lost, but I still have it. I picture myself as one mean Indian fighting off the cowboys back in them thar days.
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Above, one end has a broken spot.
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The cross hatching is on both ends.
The next item is of course an axe, and it's been around as long as I can remember, and I doubt very much that it comes from California. I've never seen anything else like it in anyone's collection or in a museum. Probably in the neighborhood of 65 years ago, in the days of cowboys and Indians at the Saturday matinee movie, I took a forked stick, and made me a tomahawk, using rawhide boot laces to tie the head in place. I don't remember, but I wouldn't be a bit surprised if there weren't some red chicken feathers on it also. When it was done, I decided that it needed some blood on the stone part, to make it look "authentic." So for blood, I took some red geranium flowers, (we had plenty of them along the garage wall) and smeared the crushed flower on the edge of the blade, and to this day, if you look closely, you can still see some of the stain remaining. I don't know why the axe didn't get broken or lost, but I still have it. I picture myself as one mean Indian fighting off the cowboys back in them thar days.
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