southwestern shell artifacts

[outlawatheart]

 

[monsterrack]

Those are super fine, I don't get to find many shell artifact's. I have only found a conch shell in the top of a mound while on a state dig and they let me keep it, because there was no work done to it. In La. across the river you can find clam shell that has been used , but have not got into that yet

 

[GatorBoy]

Nice preservation on the shell out there.
Is that a fine looking bone bead I see in with them?
Some of those look familiar.

 

[GatorBoy]

 

[outlawatheart]

I have quite a few very tiny little shell beads, almost enough for a nice necklace, also have some strange flat shell pieces that are all drilled and worked into elongated triangles. I added those whole shells because I think they are what all the broken stuff was made from.

Nice preservation on the shell out there.
Is that a fine looking bone bead I see in with them?
Some of those look familiar.

 

[GatorBoy]

A lot of those olivella shells were made into beads.

 

[curious kat]

...can I add my "turtle/whale/shark/rock?" to your collection....haha Those are nice outlaw, makes me miss the ocean I do have a NM shell though!

 

[outlawatheart]

every piece came from a mountain site in Arizona north of Chino Valley near my cabin.

...can I add my "turtle/whale/shark/rock?" to your collection....haha Those are nice outlaw, makes me miss the ocean I do have a NM shell though!

 

[pippinwhitepaws]

thank you.