Lead Sinker - Native American or Homemade

[BarbK]

Hi all! I am new here - stumbled across this forum searching for some answers and I hope someone here can help. I found this lead (sinker?) along the banks of the Delaware River in Pennsylvania yesterday. My husband thought it was a homemade drop sinker, but I feel like it is something more. I found a picture online that makes me think it could be Native American, possibly a worked lead sinker, but I cannot find any information. Does anyone have any thoughts? Thanks!

 

[MAMucker]

Hi,
Please provide close-up photos of both side of the hole

 

[BarbK]

Hi,
Please provide close-up photos of both side of the hole

I hope this helps. I only have my iphone for pictures. There is also a small triangular indentation below the hole on both sides, I think you can see in the pictures.

 

[arrow86]

Are you positive it’s lead ?

 

[willjo]

Looks like rhyolite if it is it is most likely N.A.

 

[BarbK]

Are you positive it’s lead ?

pretty sure. It's heavy and silver colored where I scraped it with only a fingernail.

 

[MAMucker]

Intriguing...
t looks hammered into shape to me. And the hole could have been drilled. The patina looks similar to musket ball patina.
I have read that some of the Coastal North American Natives worked with the raw ore of copper and lead. No melting, just hammering, so that seems to jive.

 

[BarbK]

I found this online. Looks very similar but it’s just an old auction listing. I can’t find any information on it:
https://www.barnebys.com/auctions/lot/485189035/native-american-fishing-tools-4-90258/