✅ SOLVED Native American cat toy?

[Chumlysgurl]

I found this stone carved animal thing while digging in our new garden spot, and I know it can't be naturaly shaped like this so it had to be done on purpose. Also, our land was once part of a civil war iron furnace plot (just 5 miles from a house that Light Horse Harry once owned), so I find sooo many werid things, I have atleast 1,000 square nails and I found a belt buckle and bullet shells, shotgun shells, the shotgun shells look really old, but I dont know. Anyways this cat thing is so cute, so if somebody could help me figure out how old and what kind of people would have made it I would be happy.

 

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[Chumlysgurl]

it has a flat bottom and stands up, you can tell it has what looks like legs and a tail, and eye holes, and you can really tell the back of it looks like a cat shape.

 

[Erik in NJ]

Cool! Do you know Diaz by any chance??

 

[kuger]

...what have you been using that Bic for?

 

[Chumlysgurl]

no, I'm new on this and this is my first post. But I have been digging stuff for years and have a good size collection, mainly nails and stuff that was left over from civil war iron furnace like charcol and iron blobs haha

 

[Chumlysgurl]

haha whatever it will light

 

[Breezie]

Your stone is a natural formation. It's like "clouds," we all can see different formations. Welcome to the forum. Breezie

 

[kuger]

Yep,WELCOME and its an Indian Love Stone....dont make me tell you what that is....

 

[stefen]

I suspect that this is another example of a leverite...

What has been presented is a lumpy rock with an imaginary shape (cat), function (toy) and history (Native American)...without an actual foundation or provenance.

Its like finding a bullet on a peice of land that has been farmed (and hunted) since the landing of the Mayflower and claiming its from the Civil War...solely because a trooper passed through a village 2 counties over...

 

[Chumlysgurl]

Well dang, Im still gona display it haha, everybody that sees it thinks its a cat too, that mainly why I didn't throw it back in the dirt pile. But thanks yaw

 

[DCMatt]

Oh, now I see it.

 

[Breezie]

Well dang, Im still gona display it haha, everybody that sees it thinks its a cat too, that mainly why I didn't throw it back in the dirt pile. But thanks yaw

Look at it on the positive side, Mother Nature is a great artist, so display it as your 'natural' cat. Breezie

 

[Erik in NJ]

Actually I thought it kinda resembled Chief Sitting Bull myself!

 

[Chumlysgurl]

Yep! as long as it makes a good conversation peice I think it was worth keeping Even though I hate cats haha