More January finds.

T Witko · Jan 11, 2012

It's very seldom one can get out looking for artifacts at all during a ND winter but this past week I've been able to get out several times. It's supposed to get wintery here for a few day and then maybe more lookin' weather.

flintdigger · Jan 11, 2012

Nice find's those scraper's are great. What do you think the two bone pieces are ? The pottery is fantastic love the design's Those are great find's.

wells · Jan 11, 2012

Love those endscrapers ! You find a lot of them out there, huh ? I once saw a frame of about 50 beautiful endscrapers from S.D. , the finder gave them to my buddy because he found that many. HH.

catherine1 · Jan 11, 2012

The pottery and flint artifacts are great finds! Nice to see some flint from North Dakoa!!

T Witko · Jan 11, 2012

wells said:
Love those endscrapers ! You find a lot of them out there, huh ? I once saw a frame of about 50 beautiful endscrapers from S.D. , the finder gave them to my buddy because he found that many. HH.

Yes, we do find lots of scrapers, all shapes, sizes and materials.

flintdigger said:
Nice find's those scraper's are great. What do you think the two bone pieces are ? The pottery is fantastic love the design's Those are great find's.

Flintdigger, the flat one is a broken paint stick (the broken part would likely have looked similar), the other is bone bead.

flintdigger · Jan 12, 2012

Thank's for the reply the paint stick is interesting, That is a great bone bead. Do you know is there any book's out there that cover the stone tool's, scraper's and other artifact's of the Dakota's ? This stuff is great it is really interesting.

T Witko · Jan 12, 2012

flintdigger said:
Thank's for the reply the paint stick is interesting, That is a great bone bead. Do you know is there any book's out there that cover the stone tool's, scraper's and other artifact's of the Dakota's ? This stuff is great it is really interesting.

Yes Flintdigger, I do know of some books that deal mainly with the Mandan and upper Missouri River cultures. This is all stuff from archaeology work done in the late 1890’s and early 1900’s. I don’t know of anything more recent available.

I think the two best are available in ebook format free from Google eBook. These are scanned ebooks so it takes a little time to learn how best to view them. I think you can find hardcopies of them also. There are many good drawings and detailed descriptions of things they found. There are also some photos. If the links don't work let me know and I'll email the info to you.

http://books.google.com/books?id=Jh...BA&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Mandan&f=false

Title Mandan
Volume 8 of Memoirs of explorations in the basin of the Mississippi

Authors Jacob Vradenberg Brower, Ernst Reinhold Steinbrueck, George Catlin

And the other is:

http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Mandans.html?id=fxITAAAAYAAJ

The Mandans: a study of their culture, archaeology and language, Volume 3 (Google eBook)
George Francis Will, Herbert Joseph Spinden

I don’t know of anything done recently that focus’ on Mandans.

flintdigger · Jan 13, 2012

I looked at the links they are very interesting, thank you very much for the links.

The Grim Reaper · Jan 14, 2012

Great looking finds. That Bone Bead is a very nice one. I love finding the long fat ones like that one.

Great looking in situs as well.

Congrats and thanks for the pictures.