Warden brought this home.......

[aa battery]

From Oregon. Is it a......

 

[aa battery]

looks worked other side

 

[ivan salis]

rock - shaped by indains

 

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rock - shaped by indains

oh!!

 

[jeff741972]

Obsidian is the material, not too familiar with the type of obsidian though. The object itself is probably a cutting tool/scraper.

 

[Slabman]

Very nice. The rock is called "Duo Flow, Mahogany Obsidian". Could be an incompleted piece,
or possibly a mouth knife or small scraper. I grew up in North Dakota, just off of one of the
reservations, and we found thousands of indian artifacts on our family farm. I have found the
standard black obsidian pieces, but have never found a mahogany piece like yours.

Slab

 

[aa battery]

Obsidian is the material, not too familiar with the type of obsidian though. The object itself is probably a cutting tool/scraper.

thanks. Frank

 

[aa battery]

Very nice. The rock is called "Duo Flow, Mahogany Obsidian". Could be an incompleted piece,
or possibly a mouth knife or small scraper. I grew up in North Dakota, just off of one of the
reservations, and we found thousands of indian artifacts on our family farm. I have found the
standard black obsidian pieces, but have never found a mahogany piece like yours.

Slab

old Volcano just 5 miles away

 

[Mortifercain]

very sweet colors i used to arrowhead in central florida when i was a kid found maybe 20 or 30 some with nice color never like that tho. all ours were churt flint rock with coral then fired a process the indians used to change the colors sweet find id be back to that spot for sure

 

[aa battery]

very sweet colors i used to arrowhead in central florida when i was a kid found maybe 20 or 30 some with nice color never like that tho. all ours were churt flint rock with coral then fired a process the indians used to change the colors sweet find id be back to that spot for sure

i live in california and this wuz found in Ontario Oregon

 

[aa battery]

look in da background of this photo you will see something

 

[Dano Sverige]

Helluva termite mound!

 

[aa battery]

Helluva termite mound!

 

[RiverRat3]

Definitely looks worked. Neat find.

 

[kuger]

Yep,Mahogany Obsidian,it is several feet deep in places in parts of Calif,and Oregon

 

[Mantis212]

Beautiful piece of Indian craftmanship...its amazing to think about the ancient hands that have handled that piece...their story...their uses...awesome!

 

[aa battery]

Definitely looks worked. Neat find.

 

[aa battery]

Yep,Mahogany Obsidian,it is several feet deep in places in parts of Calif,and Oregon

i dont know much bout these things. Frank

 

[aa battery]

Beautiful piece of Indian craftmanship...its amazing to think about the ancient hands that have handled that piece...their story...their uses...awesome!

funny thing wife just wuz walkin and saw it

 

[High Plains Digger]

Mortifier cain: I understand that agate, flint and chert and probably others can sometimes have the "chipability" improved by heating it in a fire, and a bigger chunk can have water dripped on it and break into very workable pieces. I suppose that would be a good thing, but I don't know that the ancients were too color conscious. There is a guy in Ohio, I think, that has claimed a agate outcropping that the agate, when heated, produces some spectacular reds yellows and blues, and he is a world class rock knocker.

I love mahogany obsidian, and would someday like to personally collect some. I do have a small arrowhead from Calif that is M O, but I think that they valued it highly out there and obsidian just didn't get traded too much to the Colorado ancients. I know there have been some, but there is also a lot of agate around here, and flints in Kansas, and huge amounts of flints in Texas, which the Indians in Colorado migrated close enough down there for the buffalo to have plenty of tool material.